North Britons on BBC Radio 4

Those of you familiar with the northern reaches of the M6 will doubtless have seen signposts to the Rheged Centre. In this afternoon's edition of Making History, historian Tim Clarkson (author of Men of the North) is asked for his thoughts on where Rheged really was; you can listen on Iplayer here (Rheged from 12 minutes in).

Taking England back to the Dark Ages? An ex-ASNC writes for the BBC

Tom Shakespeare, a former student of ours, has written an interesting, ASNC-inflected article on regional political identities in England.  You can read it on the BBC website here.