A statue of George Orwell by the British sculptor Martin Jennings was unveiled on 7 November 2017 outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC, in central London.
George Orwell statue BBC London
The Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty are the four ministries of the government of Oceania in the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by
Statue of George Orwell
…from an unused preface to Animal Farm. The head of BBC history, Robert Seatter, said of Orwell and the statue that "He reputedly based his notorious Room 101 from Nineteen Eighty-Four on a room he had worked in whilst at the BBC, but here he will stand in the fresh air reminding people of the value of…
Norma Crane (second from left) and Eddie Albert (third from left) as Ministry of Truth employees Julia and Winston Smith, from the 1953 American television adaptation
Senate House, London, where Orwell's wife worked at the Ministry of Information, was his model for the Ministry of Truth.
Artist's depiction of the Ministry of Truth building
British First World War rationing poster