Dalya Alberge

Exclusive: University College London acquires Gollancz archive that was in danger of being dispersed forever

George Orwell’s correspondence, contracts and readers’ reports relating to his earliest novels are among historic papers that have been saved for the nation after an outcry over their initial dispersal.

University College London (UCL) said it had acquired the archive of the Nineteen Eighty-Four author’s publisher as “a valuable piece of Britain’s cultural heritage”.

Exclusive: British Caribbean artist Winston Branch was distraught at loss of paintings – taken because he could not pay rent

Twenty paintings by the Caribbean British abstract painter Winston Branch have been recovered after they disappeared without trace nearly five decades ago.

“Those works were stolen from his studio because he wasn’t able to pay the rent back in the 1970s,” his agent, Varvara Roza, told the Guardian. “This is shocking, isn’t it?”

About 160 historic George Orwell papers saved for nation after outcry

Artist’s works resurface nearly five decades after disappearing from Berlin studio