Spent last weekend at Camp Bestival in Dorset, where I was giving a talk. It's a great little festival, and the sun stayed out. One of the musical highlights was the Imagined Village, who I've mentioned here before: a reinvention of the English folk music tradition with any number of strangely contemporary influences. Well worth a listen if you've not come across them.
In the last few weeks I've also come across a couple of new things which are worth exploring. Firstly, this blog - We English - is a real panoply of all things English, from any number of angles. it also has some great links and is well worth exploring.
Secondly, Albion magazine is similarly eclectic, and contains some thought-provoking stuff about the future of England. And I don't just say so because they've just interviewed me. Honestly.
More soon.
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The Blog of the Book
Welcome
My name is Paul Kingsnorth. This site is the cyberspace companion to my book, Real England, which was published in 2008 and appears in paperback this summer.
Join me as I travel through a country whose character and identity are being erased by corporate power, an over-centralised state, money and indifference - and meet the people working to turn the tide.
Join me as I travel through a country whose character and identity are being erased by corporate power, an over-centralised state, money and indifference - and meet the people working to turn the tide.
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Email: paul@paulkingsnorth.net
Battling the bland
- Campaign for an English Parliament
- Campaign for Real Ale
- Campaign To Protect Rural England
- Common Ground
- Countryside Restoration Trust
- Crystal Palace Community Association
- Freedom For Pubs
- Friends of Queens Market
- Friends of the Earth
- Jericho Community Boatyard
- Knights of St Edmund
- Lancaster - It's Our City
- Marcher Apple Network
- Mebyon Kernow
- New Economics Foundation
- Open Spaces Society
- Oswestry 21
- Oxford - Westgate Watch
- Save Chinatown Campaign
- Save Covent Garden
- Save Our Sheringham
- Save Our Waterways
- Save Pantmawr Inn
- Save Wells, Somerset
- Small Farms Association
- Street parties
- Tescopoly
- The Ecologist
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I was talking to someone at Climate Camp who does Ilkley Literature Festival http://www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/user/index.php which has a fringe and which is in NORTHERN England, where you're long overdue a visit...
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