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A lively, provocative and richly researched book. Tom Hazeldine shows that far from being marginal to British politics and culture, northern England has played a pivotal role in British history - and must be given serious consideration by the politicians of the future. Well-written and absorbing.
The definitive account of the historical importance of the North-South Divide. A masterly history of the shifting social forces shaped by this enduring fault-line.
The disparity between the North of England and the South East is a rich and tangled history. Hazeldine’s account is persuasive, and his long view is valuable. With real acuity, he highlights key differences in people’s ideas of political possibility.
The first serious study of the social and historical fissure to appear in more than 30 years.
An expansive account of the north-south divide
Traces London's parasitic rise to prominence on the back of industry and the provincial poor, which it briskly cast off once they became unprofitable
Hazeldine convincingly asserts a northern reality. His point is that Brexit, and the collapse of Labour’s Red Wall, are just the latest consequences of a divide written into England’s political and economic geography.