select bibliography on new social movements, urban commons, and anti-globalisation protest
rhododendrons
BBC Radio 4 Analysis, ‘what’s the point of street protest?’
East London primary sources
The Cuckoo Cage at Womad 2022
MERL OSS lantern slide exhibition now online
Frow lecture at the WCML: trespass and enclosure
Histories of privacy
Pavements bibliography
review of Stevenage for Tribune
old railway viaduct New Allen Street

north Manchester

Blog posts:

Public space maps

map of council owned public space in Manchester: 1897 (dark green), 1938 (brown, with council housing in yellow); 1945 (light green)

Cropper/Osborne Street – the most radical street in Manchester?:

Hear me discuss the radical history of Cropper Street on North Manchester Radio on Hannah’s Bookshelf, 19 February 2019: https://www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Bookshelf/a-helping-of-history-19022019/

https://historyofpublicspace.uk/tag/cropper-street/

Cropper Street was isolated but also a thoroughfare. Footpaths on the 1794 Green’s map of Manchester, overlain over the 1849 1st edition OS map, showing how they crossed over what became Osborne Street (on their way to St George’s Fields), but then were extinguished by the railway:

map of footpaths on os map
1st edn OS map of Manchester, 1849, with footpaths overlain from 1794 Green’s map

Maps in progress:

Sources

1880 map of the sanitary districts of Manchester – University of Manchester digitised collections

Osborne Street and surrounding:

https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s/i38eur

https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/maps002~1~1~415025~220734:%3Ca-rel=-license–href=-http—creat?qvq=q:%3D%22Project%3A%20Victorian%20Sanitary%20Survey%20Maps%20for%20central%20Manchester%22;lc:maps002~1~1&mi=14&trs=46