An elephant carrying timber in Burma, circa 1920. Photograph: Niday Picture Library/Alamy Stock PhotoAn elephant carrying timber in Burma, circa 1920. Photograph: Niday Picture Library/Alamy Stock PhotoElephant conservationEnvironmentDid George Orwell shoot an elephant? His 1936 'confession' – and what it might meanGeorge Orwell wrote a shocking account of a colonial policeman who kills an elephant and is filled with self-loathing. But was this fiction – or a confession? An Orwell expert introduces the original story

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