The personal archives of George Orwell,
containing the author and journalist’s first phrasing of the sinister
slogan from Nineteen Eighty-Four, “War is Peace. Ignorance is strength.
Freedom is slavery”, have been added to Unesco’s register of the world’s
most significant documents.
The Memory of the World register
is the archival equivalent of Unesco’s world heritage sites, listing
unique historical documents from the Diary of Anne Frank to Magna Carta,
with the intention that they be “fully preserved and protected for
all”. University College London, which houses the manuscript notebooks,
diaries, letters and photographs that make up the Orwell papers, said it
underwent a highly competitive selection process to win a place on the
list, and that Unesco’s selectors had recognised the “world significance and outstanding universal value” of Orwell’s writings. ... [mehr] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/19/george-orwell-archives-added-to-unesco-memory-of-the-world-register
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