[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Room 101
Kathryn Cawte
kcawte at ntlworld.com
Wed Nov 19 21:08:42 UTC 2003
>
> I'll up the Orwell ante and recollect that he based all the
> ministries in Nineteen Eighty Four: The Ministry of Truth, the
> Ministry of Plenty, the Ministry of Peace and the Ministry of Love on
> none other than Senate House, which is the Headquarters of the
> University of London - and where my own very small college was
> located (in part of it).
>
> For a look at the Ministry of Truth click here
>
> http://www.ull.ac.uk/
>
> This building was used for the disemination of propaganda during WWII
> and Orwell was actually based here doing just that for the British
> Government.
>
> June
>
Wow, really? I used to have classes in there (in a little room of the
library actually). Hated the place, it was so confusing (well to me anyway).
Not of course as confusing as the main building at RHUL where I was based
though.
K
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