Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Tom Hazeldine

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241mm x 159mm x 23mm

Pages: 304

A history of the UKGÇÖs regional inequalities, and why they matter
Differences between EnglandGÇÖs North and South continue to shape national politics, from attitudes to Brexit and the electoral collapse of LabourGÇÖs GÇÿRed WallGÇÖ to WhitehallGÇÖs 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.