By Joe Fenn
As the Portico begins Rewriting the North, a series of events exploring place writing in the North of England, the first step taken into this exciting new terrain lands in the cold, damp sands of the North West coast…
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By Nicole Peeters
When George Orwell visited the North of England in the 1930s, he believed he had entered ‘a strange country’ - one that was industrial, impoverished and bleak in opposition to his civilised, familiar South. Part of his opinion was informed by real differences, but he acknowledges an even bigger part was the result of…
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