I’m curious as to why there has been an upsurge in academic and trade books on the issue of land reform. Of course, Anna Minton was part of pushing the issue of the privatisation of public land back onto the agenda a
Hannah Priest of North Manchester Radio interviewed me last week for her programme A Helping of History. Listen to hear about the radical history of Cropper/Osborne Street Collyhurst. Hear it now on Mixcloud:
I’m starting to compile as many definitions of public space as I can from here. 2011 First, the definition from the London Assembly’s 2011’s report, ‘Public life in private hands Managing London’s public space’, which started to acknowledge the massive shift to
Quick post – As you may know, this project is very much inspired by the great project Who Owns England? led by Guy Shrubsole and a team of researchers, sending in FOI applications and scraping maps to campaign for more transparency in
The Webb Estate near Purley, Surrey, is an odd place, a exclusive-feeling village of ‘desirable’ houses, but with indications of something else behind the gates. The official website of the company that run the estate: http://www.webbestate.co.uk/history-1 Here are some pictures of
This is the most radical street in Manchester history, in my opinion. In April 2017, I took a field trip around Ancoats and Miles Platting, north Manchester, to investigate some of the sites of protest and popular politics that I researched for
landscape and dwelling