I’m interested in the overtly ‘county’ identity displayed by the anti-fracking campaigns. Lancashire has been at the forefront, and the campaign there uses the ceremonial county flag (i.e pre-1974) of a red rose on a yellow background. The photos in this recent
‘contested public space and protest in urban Britain from the 18th century to today’
I’ve been working on the archives in Bolton relating to the Winter Hill mass trespass of 6 September 1896. More to follow but here are some links to work that has already been done on the event. ‘Will yo’ come o’ Sunday
James Greenhalgh’s book, Reconstructing Modernity: space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities (Manchester UP, 2017) is a thought-provoking account of the development of postwar planning, especially in Manchester and Hull. His main point concerns the continuities between planning in the