Barnhill Farmhouse On History Visit To Island Of Jura Inner Hebrides Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Barnhill Farmhouse on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Island Of Jura, Inner Hebrides. The house was rented by the essayist and novelist George Orwell ( Eric Arthur Blair ), who lived there intermittently from 1946 until January 1949; he completed the novel Nineteen Eighty Four at Barnhill. He was spending months on the island to escape the daily grind of journalism and to find a clean environment which doctors thought would help him recover from a dangerous bout of tuberculosis. Orwell left Jura in January 1949 to get treatment at a sanatorium at Cranham, Gloucestershire, England, and never returned to the island. Barnhill stands on the site of a larger 15th century settlement called Cnoc an t-Sabhail; the English name Barnhill having been in use since the early twentieth century. The name Barnhill means Hill of the barn. Eric Arthur Blair born 25 June 1903, died 21 January 1950, known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Nineteen Eighty Four has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. It also popularised the term Orwellian as an adjective, with many terms used in the novel entering common usage, including Big Brother, doublethink, Thought Police, thoughtcrime, Newspeak and more. Time included it on its 100 best English language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was placed on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, reaching No. 13 on the editors' list and No. 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, the novel was listed at No. 8 on The Big Read survey by the BBC. Parallels have been drawn between the novel's subject matter and real life instances of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and violations of freedom of expression among other themes. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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