George Orwell, the British writer from the mid-twentieth century, is in the news these days. Some suggest we are stuck in “Animal Farm,” “an animal fable about totalitarianism,” but others believe ...

Whitefriars continued to make Textured domestic glass, notably the new Glacier range of 1972 and a series of millefiori paperweights, but the end came in 1980. The trademark Whitefriars is now owned ...