On this day: Animal Farm is published Opinion On this day, 17 August, in 1945, with pro-Soviet sentiment rapidly fading in the UK, George Orwell's Animal Farm is finally published.
Bronze sculpture of poet John Keats to be unveiled in London Culture English poet John Keats will be immortalised in a bronze sculpture, unveiled near his birthplace in Moorgate next week, it has been revealed. A public sculpture forged by sculptor Martin Jennings will be revealed on 31 October, in the heart of the City of London, a short distance from his birthplace on what would have [...]