The Northern Question: A Political History of the North-South Divide

The Northern Question: A Political History of the North-South Divide

Author
Tom Hazeldine
Publisher
Verso
Language
English
Year
2020
Page
304
ISBN
9781786634061
File Type
epub
File Size
1.8 MiB

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.

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