1.	George Orwell a The Road to Wigan Pier

2.	Situace anglického severu a jihu dnes

3.	Anglické tematické parky

"In 1937, George Orwell, a famed British writer, made an indelible mark on public mind thanks to an exceptional book that also touches the North-South question. In 1936, the Left Book Club, an anti-fascist and pro-Soviet institution supplying chosen books to its members, asked Orwell to write something about the industrial areas in the northern England that suffered a serious economical decline. He complied and wrote The Road to Wigan Pier. According to an essay by Claus B. Storgaard, the book was not quite what the editors of the book club had expected, as Orwell saw this request as a chance to define his own relationship to socialism. However, it gives us an excellent opportunity to see the typical image of the north in 1930’s. In the pages of this excellent documentary, Orwell describes the shocking living conditions of the working classes in Britain’s northern cities. Several months, he lived with the Northerners in a small town, Wigan, documenting the terrible slums and unhealthy lifestyle of the population. When depicting the environment his main features are factories with their smoking chimneys, mass of slag-heaps and unbearable stink. He certainly intended to appeal to the public and probably the government of that time; however, we might also notice the comparison between the north and south:
As you travel northward your eye, accustomed to the South or East, does not notice much difference until you are beyond Birmingham. In Coventry you might as well be in Finsbury Park, and the Bull Ring in Birmingham is not unlike Norwich Market, and between all the towns of the Midlands there stretches a villa-civilization indistinguishable from that of the South. It is only when you get a little further north, to the pottery towns and beyond, that you begin to encounter the real ugliness of industrialism— an ugliness so frightful and so arresting that you are obliged, as it were, to come to terms with it.1
This description exactly expresses the opinion of many people. Why is that? Orwell asserts that it is due to the noticeable differences that certainly exist between the north and south. However, and that is much more revealing, he also claims that people have these stereotypical images inside their minds and basically generalise what they have learned from the ancestors. In many cases, they do not make the effort to explore the reality themselves and pass on these conclusions."