Blogs in May 2017

Elsewhere: Stories from Small Town Europe 19th May 2017

What do we mean by small town? How has this innocuous term – one up from ‘village’, a couple down from ‘city’ – come to function as a pejorative? Pressed to describe what the phrase ‘small town’ conjures up,...

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The Book of Liverpool (Reading The World) 14th May 2017

A baby blown out of an upstairs window by a WWII bomb lives to hear others tell the tale… A woman embarks on a long-term obsession with a city landmark, abandoning her lover for the Liver… A bricklayer working...

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