Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'These Isles', 'Northerners: A History' and 'Made in Manchester'.
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OUT NOW: 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' (@HarperNorthUK). Previous books 'Northerners: A History' (2022), 'Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World' (2024).
Thatched cottage, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, mid-20th century, photo by John Hinde, English postcard photographer.
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How much do you really know about Scotland?
Join leading historian Murray Pittock and acclaimed author Brian Groom for a fascinating journey through Scotland's history, identity and nationhood.
Thursday 19th November, 6.30pm. Tickets £12.
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Glasgow's Citizens Theatre named as Britain's top theatre in inaugural Great British Theatre Awards. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c615…
Turning Hay, 1940, painting by Millie Frood, 1900-88, Motherwell-born Scottish artist (North Lanarkshire Council Museums).
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THESE ISLES: Edward I (‘Longshanks’), England’s king 1272-1307 and ‘Hammer of the Scots’ and Welsh, tried to establish an English empire within the Isles. 1/7
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More reader comments on THESE ISLES:
'Well into reading this. It’s very good.'
'Impressed about the way you are able to compress thousands of years of history into a few pages.'
'A concise and highly informed text. Full of interesting material.'
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The Quiraing, Isle of Skye, photo by Yorkshire-based landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.
Lancashire was accepted as a county only when a royal exchequer official, in the audit for 1181-2, wrote out a separate parchment under the heading Lancastra quia non erat ei locus in Northumberland: ‘Lancaster, because there is no place for it in Northumberland.’
Good luck to bookshops everywhere as they approach the busy season, including Serenity Booksellers @SerenityRomiley, Read Holmfirth and Glossop's Dark Peak Books. Doing great work in a tough market.
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I'll be talking about 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' at Hazel Grove Local History Group, Stockport, Friday Nov 13th 10am. St Peter's Parish Centre, Green Lane SK7 4EA. Visitors £4.
The Enchanted Castle, c.1841, painting by Francis Danby, 1793-1861, Irish artist from County Wexford (Victoria and Albert Museum).
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THESE ISLES: Margaret Haig Thomas, Second Viscountess Rhondda (1883-1958), was a businesswoman from a wealthy industrial family and also Wales’s most famous suffragette. 1/7
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A nice comment: 'My Christmas present for my loved ones! Brian, a BIG thank you!'
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Plockton Cluster, painting by Pam Carter (1952-2022), Scottish landscape and seascape artist. #WomensArt
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The Druid’s Rest, by Tom Brown (1933-2017). Hanky Park, Salford, closed 1963. via @GrimArtGroup
