The Shrieking Violet

The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway starts on the outskirts of the picturesque town of Hythe in Kent. Since the late-1920s, it has con...

Thursday 15 September. The Queen is Dead and it’s day ten of national mourning. The weather is changing from summer into autumn and it feels...

This winter, a large bronze peacock appeared in the grounds of Ordsall Hall in Salford, on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal.  Whilst a...

I had never been to Winter Hill – an open expanse of moorland above the large industrial town of Bolton – before. As a committed urbanite, I...

A full set of back issues of The Shrieking Violet is now available to view in the University of Salford Library zine collection . This has e...

Congratulations to Dr Morag Rose on the publication of her journal article in Gender, Place & Culture , ‘From an aviatrix to a eugenici...

How it started How it’s going brings together new work on paper by Darren Nixon and Laura Hopkinson, shown in dialogue with The Fourdrinier...

Earlier this year I commissioned the designer Des Lloyd Behari to make me a new website to bring together most of my writing, projects and ...

I'm pleased to be a contributor to a new book, Manchester: Something Rich and Strange (edited by Paul Dobraszczyk and Sarah Butler), pu...

2019 has been characterised by a precarious balance of full-time work, freelance work, conferences and attempts at academic writing. My...