My name is Ivan Kinsman and I am an English national.

I have an M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of St Andrews (1981-85).

I am currently working as a lecturer in British Literature in Kielce, Poland, where I live with my wife and son.


To date I have made contributions to:

  • the George Orwell main article (additions dated 21st April, 2007 in history), with a particular focus on his personal life. Also, the personal life section in the article on Gordon Brown


I am currently working on a projected associated with English rural society before the Industrial Revolution, the Industrial Revolution itself (focusing very much on Arthur Toynbee's Oxford lectures), and how this was reflected in the literature of the time (Hardy, Eliot, Dickens). The project may be extended to similar fundamental changes being encountered by our own fully industrialised society as a result of capitalism (George Orwell's views)/market forces and, as a consequence of this, climate change (James Lovelock's Gaia Theory et. al), and social changes/energy revolution that will need to be made to counter this threat.

E-mail address: ikinsman@hotmail.com


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