Word: wigan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kieran Kenny, then 17 years old and an unemployed surveyor trainee from industrial Wigan in Britain's Lancashire, must have touched the heart of someone at Buckingham Palace when he wrote a plaintive letter to Queen Elizabeth II in 1980, asking for a job. Within weeks Kenny was hired as a stores (pantry) clerk and assigned lodgings in the staff quarters. Like all employees of the royal household, Kenny had to pledge in writing never to reveal to outsiders what goes on inside the royal residences...
...study The Unknown Orwell). Blair was feeling his way as a minor novelist, self-absorbed and "unremittingly nonpolitical." By the time Eric fully became George, he was passionately political in every line. The transformation was triggered by the poverty, unemployment and neglect he saw while researching The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). Then the Spanish Civil War confirmed his vision of a new socialist order-and gave him an education in the treachery of internecine politics. In between these experiences, he married his first wife, a bright, game girl named Eileen O'Shaughnessy. One of the delights of this...
...Angela Wigan...
...Angela Wigan...
...Angela Wigan...