The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England.

Selina Todd, Professor of Modern History at St Hilda's, Oxford, is the author of Young women, work, and family in England, 1918-1950 (Oxford, 2005) (winner of the Women's History Network annual book prize), The People: the rise and fall of the working class, 1910-2010 (John Murray, 2014) and Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution (Vintage, 2019).

• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• Chronology


• The Road to Wigan Pier


• Appendix: Photographs


• Explanatory Notes