Darcy Moore
@darcy1968.bsky.social
Independent scholar. Traveller. Currently in England. Bibliomaniac. Flâneur. List-maker. Interested in AI. Orwellian. Researching Orwell’s Anglo-Indian family. Recently received the Peter Davison Award for scholarship. https://www.darcymoore.net/
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Neanderthal DNA helps explain how faces form 🧬💀 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Neanderthal DNA helps explain how faces form
Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces develo...
phys.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Neanderthal DNA helps explain how faces form 🧬💀 phys.org/news/2025-11...
Spent my day in the National Portrait Gallery archives (Heinz Gallery) trying to find information about Thomas Beach's portraiture.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Spent my day in the National Portrait Gallery archives (Heinz Gallery) trying to find information about Thomas Beach's portraiture.
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🎧: @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social discuss their departure from the Observer...and their brand new project, @thenerve.news.
The Nerve: ‘We want to shine a light on culture… with a bit of “F— you” energy on the side’
Carole Cadwalladr and Sarah Donaldson discuss their departure from the Observer...and their brand new project
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🎧: @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social discuss their departure from the Observer...and their brand new project, @thenerve.news.
After two weeks, due to a staff strike, I can access reservations via my favourite reading room at the British Library.
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
After two weeks, due to a staff strike, I can access reservations via my favourite reading room at the British Library.
Spent time with the death masks the National Portrait Gallery this afternoon.
November 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Spent time with the death masks the National Portrait Gallery this afternoon.
Fabulous afternoon chatting with booksellers and collectors at the #ChelseaBookFair today! Go tomorrow if you can! Noted the CWGO going for £12,500 and an interestingly inscribed first edition of Animal Farm. #Orwell www.chelseabookfair.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Fabulous afternoon chatting with booksellers and collectors at the #ChelseaBookFair today! Go tomorrow if you can! Noted the CWGO going for £12,500 and an interestingly inscribed first edition of Animal Farm. #Orwell www.chelseabookfair.com
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He’s done it again!
Orwell studies are much in debt to Darcy; the least I can do is buy him a pint when I meet him later today!
Orwell studies are much in debt to Darcy; the least I can do is buy him a pint when I meet him later today!
I found a trove of materials in Wales, including a lost letter from #Orwell. www.darcymoore.net/2025/10/31/l...
Lost Letter (1942) - Darcy Moore
“Orwell must have had some scheme for winning the war, or perhaps, as William Empson remembered, for organised guerrilla warfare if there were a German invasion. He received a short acknowledgment on ...
www.darcymoore.net
October 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
He’s done it again!
Orwell studies are much in debt to Darcy; the least I can do is buy him a pint when I meet him later today!
Orwell studies are much in debt to Darcy; the least I can do is buy him a pint when I meet him later today!
I found a trove of materials in Wales, including a lost letter from #Orwell. www.darcymoore.net/2025/10/31/l...
Lost Letter (1942) - Darcy Moore
“Orwell must have had some scheme for winning the war, or perhaps, as William Empson remembered, for organised guerrilla warfare if there were a German invasion. He received a short acknowledgment on ...
www.darcymoore.net
October 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I found a trove of materials in Wales, including a lost letter from #Orwell. www.darcymoore.net/2025/10/31/l...
Monday morning in London.
October 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Monday morning in London.
I have had a fabulous day in Wales! More anon!
October 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I have had a fabulous day in Wales! More anon!
Deeply impressed with this fabulous library and archive on my first visit!
October 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Deeply impressed with this fabulous library and archive on my first visit!
The conservative forces ally against our biosphere!
“The ABC understands the minister met again with his Coalition counterpart, Angie Bell, on Tuesday and negotiations have been progressing quickly.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
“The ABC understands the minister met again with his Coalition counterpart, Angie Bell, on Tuesday and negotiations have been progressing quickly.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
October 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The conservative forces ally against our biosphere!
“The ABC understands the minister met again with his Coalition counterpart, Angie Bell, on Tuesday and negotiations have been progressing quickly.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
“The ABC understands the minister met again with his Coalition counterpart, Angie Bell, on Tuesday and negotiations have been progressing quickly.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
A report from The #Orwell Society about the recent trip to #Polperro #Cornwall! orwellsociety.com/polperro-aut...
Polperro, Autumn 2025
The Orwell Society's Visit to Polperro
(October 3 - 6, 2025)
A Report by Oliver Buckton
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George Orwell possibly came to Polperro in late 1904 and definitely visited before WWI, while he last visited ...
orwellsociety.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
A report from The #Orwell Society about the recent trip to #Polperro #Cornwall! orwellsociety.com/polperro-aut...
Radio National is to be applauded for this celebration of reading, readers and authors in Australia. What books do you love that missed out on the top 10 or top 100? Which selections made you cheer! #Top100Books www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
Radio National's Top 100 Books - ABC Radio National
Radio National's Top 100 Books of the past 25 years is here. Listen on Saturday 19 October and Sunday 20 October as we count down the books you voted as your favourites.
www.abc.net.au
October 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Radio National is to be applauded for this celebration of reading, readers and authors in Australia. What books do you love that missed out on the top 10 or top 100? Which selections made you cheer! #Top100Books www.abc.net.au/listen/radio...
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just woke in Dorchester - where the literary icon Thomas Hardy looms large in the streets - listening to the the Top 100 Countown of Books of the 21st Century! Love it! #Top100Books
October 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Just woke in Dorchester - where the literary icon Thomas Hardy looms large in the streets - listening to the the Top 100 Countown of Books of the 21st Century! Love it! #Top100Books
Who knew. ;) theconversation.com/worried-abou...
Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak
Perhaps it’s time we stopped treating midlife as a countdown and started recognising it as a peak.
theconversation.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Who knew. ;) theconversation.com/worried-abou...
Richard Cullen on #Orwell
Orwell foresees the 21st century
George Orwell completed his most famous novel 1984 in 1948, shortly before his early death at 46. A few years earlier, in a remarkable short 1945 essay, Orwell foresaw a future world order overseen by...
johnmenadue.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Richard Cullen on #Orwell
October 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Pub rebranding! www.bbc.com/news/article... #Orwell
Wallasey pub renamed The George Orwell in digital ID cards protest
The James Atherton has been renamed in a bid to spark debate about civil liberties.
www.bbc.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Pub rebranding! www.bbc.com/news/article... #Orwell
Loving Ian McEwan’s latest novel, What We Can Know. It explores themes which have obsessed this reader for a decade! www.penguin.com.au/books/what-w...
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. A masterpiece an...
www.penguin.com.au
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Loving Ian McEwan’s latest novel, What We Can Know. It explores themes which have obsessed this reader for a decade! www.penguin.com.au/books/what-w...
What an amazing cache on sale @ Peter Harrington Rare Books! www.peterharrington.co.uk/research-mat... #HilaryMantel #biography #Cromwell
Research materials for the Wolf Hall series, including the author's main source text and her annotated copies of key academic works.
Research materials for the Wolf Hall series, including the author's main source text and her annotated copies of key academic works. Seven reference works on Thomas Cromwell and his era, thoughtfully ...
www.peterharrington.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
What an amazing cache on sale @ Peter Harrington Rare Books! www.peterharrington.co.uk/research-mat... #HilaryMantel #biography #Cromwell