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Construction work in Manchester after the IRA bomb of 1996 (Len Grant/Millennium Manchester).

Where tourists seldom tread, part 20: three UK towns that feel like home In the last of the series, the writer returns to three passed-over places where he used to live – Harrow, Clitheroe and Princetown in Devon

Three UK towns that feel like home to LANCASHIRE author Chris Moss: Clitheroe, Harrow and Princetown:
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f you had to balance Britain (not the UK) on a pin, where would its centre of gravity be?

Yes, that's right. Whitendale Hanging Stones in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire.

Chris Moss's LANCASHIRE: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World is out now.

I took a hop-on, hop-off bus through a spectacularly underrated English landscape The Forest of Bowland is among the treasures of Lancashire

Chris Moss, author of LANCASHIRE, explores a spectacularly underrated English landscape - the Forest of Bowland @theipaper.com @visitlancashire.bsky.social inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Chairman Mao was Trump but with added brains… and mango Chairman Mao was just as much of a megalomaniac as Trump. But a more intelligent thinker, more original and articulate.

Chairman Mao and Donald Trump have more in common than you might think - Linda Jaivin, author of The Cultural Revolution in China, in @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

What are the UK's top 10 counties? And which is number 1? Lancastrian Chris Moss picks...
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'A bit gritty, somewhat pretty' - how a Lancashire homecoming inspired a new book about the historic county As a young man, Chris Moss didn’t just leave his native Lancashire but got about as far away from it as he possibly could. After growing up in Burtonwood, near St Helens, and working in teaching, he m...

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Is St Helens still Lancashire? Exploring the county that made the modern world AUTHOR and journalist Chris Moss has written about travels across the world, but his latest piece of work is one close to his heart.

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'Lancashire was a grand old county. Then someone sawed it off at the knees by amputating Liverpool and Manchester. All power then to Chris Moss, who makes this magical place whole again. Here is a giant revived, tall with tales of witches, subversives, candy-floss and coal' PAUL du NOYER

'A winning combination of history, memoir, and irreverent humour, it's a fitting tribute to the greatest county in England.' DAVID SWIFT, author of Scouse Republic

'Chris Moss's journey through Lancashire is also a journey into the life he left behind. I for one am pleased he came back home.' JEFF YOUNG @wildtwin.bsky.social

'A Lancastrian rediscovers Lancashire: a deeply personal, well-crafted account of the Red Rose county’s past and present’ BRIAN GROOM @groomb.bsky.social

Moss takes us through a near-mythical landscape, a disappearing county of witches, mills, dales, meres, pop music and the first industrial proletariat. An engrossing tour of the landscape that created modern Britain’ NICHOLAS BLINCOE

Happy publication day to Chris Moss's wonderful LANCASHIRE: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World.

Very good to see in this week's Big Issue the feature by Linda Jaivin on what links Donald Trump and Chairman Mao. Linda's book The Cultural Revolution in China is out now in paperback.

Black and white photo of a shelf and wall in my office. Absolute chaos

I wrote about this corner of my office for my 18th Magnetic North in the 18th edition of Science & Magic, the Violette mag. Lots of great stuff from other writers and artists, you can read it here:
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Pierhead, Liverpool, 1985, photo by Tom Wood.

We meant to write: 'Of Britain's 25 most populous towns, is Blackpool the best?' Still, your answer might be the same.

Is Blackpool really Britain's best town? So argues Chris Moss in @telegraph.co.uk 'Popular but spurned, rich and dirt poor, Blackpool is, and always was, all things to all people.' www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...

Bookstall outside Ye Olde Rovers Return pub, Manchester, January 1954. The 14th century building was demolished in 1958 (Getty/Manchester Evening News).

Graeme Whitfield of @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social says of Chris Moss's LANCASHIRE (out 17 Feb):
'makes an excellent companion piece to Brian Groom’s recent books on the North and Manchester, and Dan Jackson’s Northumbrians...an enjoyable read for anyone with an interest in the North West'

For anyone visiting the British Museum's SAMURAI exhibition, you can learn more in Lesley Downer's bestselling THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF JAPAN. Now out in paperback. @lesleydowner.bsky.social

‘Brisk, brilliant and compulsively readable'
—Christopher Harding @drchrisharding.bsky.social

Film: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Daniel Soar · In the Soviet Archives When Sheila Fitzpatrick first went to Moscow in the 1960s as a young academic, the prevailing understanding of the...

Sheila Fitzpatrick is interviewed by the London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk
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Linda Jaivin on the Cultural Revolution | China Books Review The writer and China watcher talks us through her microhistory of Mao’s last decade in power, and its relevance to Trump’s MAGA movement.

Linda Jaivin is interviewed by China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com
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Happy paperback publication day to Old Street's first two GREAT EVENTS books: Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Death of Stalin and Linda Jaivin's The Cultural Revolution in China. Brilliant works exploring turning points in history - and all in 128 pages.

'A clear, layperson-friendly explanation of how we got to this weird and confusing place… [Walsh] is a very funny writer, which is a delightful bonus' – Financial Times on Toby Walsh's THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF AI.

Very good to see Toby Walsh's THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF AI reviewed in @prospectmagazine.co.uk: 'a book that’s both educational and enjoyable. Deposit it in school libraries—and on the reading piles of politicians, journalists and, indeed, anyone who hopes to understand the revolution'.