Major Anniversaries in 2025

125 years since the death of David Edward Hughes, a British-American inventor and music academic best known for inventing the printing telegraph and the microphone

100 years since the death of H. Rider Haggard, English author, best known for his novel 'She', the best selling adventure novel of all time, and his 'Allan Quartermain' series, which established the 'lost world' fiction genre

75 years since the death of George Orwell, author and campaigner against social injustice and totalitarianism, best known for his novel '1984' which established the 'dystopian world' fiction genre