George Orwell’s (Covert) Networks

Since the millennial turn, access to new archives has invigorated scholarship into the ‘cultural Cold War’, but archival information silos and the conflict’s global scope prevent researchers from viewing large-scale networks and relationships. Mapping the Cultural/Intelligence Nexus will link archival authority records to display relational information about figures and agencies within covert propaganda networks.

This demo takes the novelist George Orwell as its central node.

Using Encoded Archival Context–Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF), we aim to connect local record instances with archival repositories, allowing researchers to discover network connections and heritage materials related to state-sponsored cultural activities in WWII and the Cold War period.

George Orwell’s SNAC relation constellation (root)
George Orwell’s (covert) relation constellation (root)
Sample triad SNAC relation constellation (root + 2 neighbour constellations)
Sample triad (covert) relation constellation (root + 2 neighbour constellations)
Expanded (covert) relation constellation (root + SNAC neighbour constellations)
Filtered expanded (covert) relation constellation (degree ≥ 2)