Author: Placesandculturaltraces

I love cultural geography, social history and psychogeography. Inspiration comes from some surprising places, what some might dismiss as 'ordinary' places.
Bradford, Social History, West Yorkshire

Panorama: journal of travel place and nature, and Hinterland: journal of creative non-fiction

I am pleased to announce that Panorama has today published ‘They pass and smile, the children of the sword’, and that Hinterland published ‘Bradford’s unlikely literary road’ earlier this year. Both feature Bradford’s literary geography. https://panoramajournal.org/issues/issue-16-encounters/encounters-they-pass-and-smile-the-children-of-the-sword https://www.hinterlandnonfiction.com/shop/issue-16-digital-edition Continue reading Panorama: journal of travel place and nature, and Hinterland: journal of creative non-fiction

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Social History, West Yorkshire

The Essential West Riding

Herbert Whone (1975). Review by John Bromley. The Essential West Riding is a pleasing mix of photographs and texts by J.B. Priestley, Emily Brontë and Phyllis Bentley, among others, with a foreword by ex Labour Prime Minisiter, Harold Wilson. The photographs are monochrome and starkly characterful of countryside, street settings, factories, rivers and canals. Purposely Whone has not included people as he wanted the book … Continue reading The Essential West Riding

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Rotherham, Sheffield

Don Valley: ‘…wither, in despair, the tyrants of all lands’

Ebenezer Elliott on the opening of the Sheffield to Rotherham Railway in 1838 …For mind shall conquer time and space; Bid East and West shake hands! Bring over Ocean, face to face, Earth’s ocean-sever’d strands; And on this path, Iron bear Words that shall wither, in despair, The tyrants of all lands. But, lo! the train! – On! onward! – still  Loud shrieks the kindled wave; … Continue reading Don Valley: ‘…wither, in despair, the tyrants of all lands’

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Rotherham, Social History

S66: Journey into the English mind

If you’re on the M18 you are probably lost. Weren’t you on the way to ‘Bronte country’ and its bleak, dramatic moors, or maybe James Herriot’s vibrant limestone dales? What literary association could possibly draw you to the unexceptional countryside and post industrial sheds peppering the urban sprawl on the east side of Rotherham? Julian Baggini began his ‘Journey into the English mind’ here in … Continue reading S66: Journey into the English mind

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