I am an upland person. I grew up surrounded on three sides by the foothills…
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common rights 1965
I’m coming back to earlier archival research I did on common rights and the Commons…
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“They were simply a part of everything you saw”
“You could not escape the moors. They did not impose themselves. They simply surrounded and…
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public lecture in Berlin 1 July
I am giving a public lecture at Humboldt University, Berlin, on Monday 1 July. https://www.gbz.hu-berlin.de/events
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Public Order acts and public space
Sometimes the shorter articles provoke the most interesting of thoughts for this project. I’m increasingly…
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environmental protest and county identity
I’m interested in the overtly ‘county’ identity displayed by the anti-fracking campaigns. Lancashire has been…
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orange peel
I’m currently working on the history of litter, litter bins, and anti-litter campaigns. Orange peel…
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plenary lecture, Urban History Group conference, Queen’s University Belfast, April 2019
‘contested public space and protest in urban Britain from the 18th century to today’
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moral ecologies of resistance
A couple of weeks ago, news of private developers netting hedges and trees to prevent…