Northern Question : A History of A Divided Country

Hazeldine, Tom

ISBN 10: 1786634066 / ISBN 13: 9781786634061

Published by Verso, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Northern Question : A History of A Divided Country
• Publisher: Verso
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786634066
• ISBN 13: 9781786634061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

A history of the UK’s regional inequalities, and why they matter

Differences between England’s North and South continue to shape national politics, from attitudes to Brexit and the electoral collapse of Labour’s ‘Red Wall’ to Whitehall’s experimentation with regional pandemic lockdowns. Why is this fault line such a persistent feature of the English landscape?

The Northern Question is a history of England seen in the unfamiliar light of a northern perspective. While London is the capital and the centre for trade and finance, the proclaimed leader of the nation, northern England has always seemed like a different country. In the nineteenth century its industrializing society appeared set to bring a political revolution down upon Westminster and the City. Tom Hazeldine recounts how subsequent governments put finance before manufacturing, London ahead of the regions, and austerity before reconstruction.

About the Author

Tom Hazeldine was born in Manchester in 1982. He studied at the University of York and Northwestern University, Illinois, and is now an editor at New Left Review. He lives in London.