This article analyses a recent television drama written by Sally Wainwright in order to
explore notions of Northernness, gender and class. I consider to what extent Wainwright is …

Nicholas Crane's work ranges from books on mountaineering and cycling to a history of the
landscapes of Britain. His travel books include narratives of his own travels through Europe …

The title song of Sally Wainwright's critically acclaimed crime drama Happy Valley (2014-,
BBC One) offers a dreary view of life in an average British town: the speaker of Jake Bugg's …

This article highlights the role of visual artists in recording the mutations of a landscape that
became industrial and urban. From the late eigteenth century and early nineteenth century …

The use of slum clearance in the post-war period by local authorities radically changed the
fabric of the urban landscape in Britain forever. These programmes of wholesale demolition …

This chapter examines the relationship between two ITV soap operas and the recent
development of the cities where they are made. Coronation Street is produced in Salford …

Abstract This chapter examines Jimmy McGovern's The Street (BBC1 2006–09) as a text
which draws upon familiar and recurring iconographic tropes of Northern identity to inculcate …

This study proposes that the novels associated with the early 1960s cinematic “British New
Wave,” though popularly representative of Northern England, have suffered from under …