The Gallows Pole: Myth & The Taxonomy of Terrain in Yorkshire’s Rebel Landscape
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: Yorkshire Benjamin Myers’ The Gallows Pole [Bluemoose Books] is a novel about the Cragg Vale …
Brexit, Landslip, Divorce & a Very Sussex Apocalypse
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: Hastings, East Sussex The Stone Tide: Adventures at the End of the World is an …
An Exploration of St Peter’s, Cardross
LOCATION: The Firth of Clyde, Scotland This is an extract from Angus Farquhar’s photo essay in the new book St …
The North London Museum of Native American Culture: A Southeastern Rail Shaggy Dog Story
LOCATION: Southeastern Rail, London, Hastings WORDS: Ben Thompson The first time I saw Tex (and although at that point I …
The Fate of England’s ‘Infant Hercules’
A review of Stripped Tees: Endurance and Hope in the North East by Richard Milward and Natalie Hardwick [Influx Press, …
On the Trail of the Green Man: An interview with Nina Lyon
WORDS: Gary Budden I spoke to author Nina Lyon about her latest book Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green …
An Unreliable Guide to London
LOCATION: Erm…. WORDS: Gareth E Rees If you’re a regular reader of Unofficial Britain, you’ll know that I like to …
Between Place & Imagination
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees This is a transcript of my talk at the Walking Inside Out Symposium, an event in …
Common Ground: Rob Cowen on Edgeland Literature, Psychogeography & Nature Writing
WORDS: Gary Budden interviews Rob Cowen I recently spoke to Rob Cowen, author of the excellent Common Ground, about his …
Election Night in Aberystwyth with Niall Griffiths
LOCATION: West Wales WORDS: Gary Budden ‘It’s hard to paraphrase; if I could paraphrase all this stuff then I wouldn’t have …