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David Edgar: In Burnley, 23 September 2021
On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town
by Mike Makin-Waite.
Lawrence and Wishart, 274 pp., £17, May,978 1 913546 02 1 Show More
by Mike Makin-Waite.
Lawrence and Wishart, 274 pp., £17, May,
“... Mike Makin-Waite
, a militant anti-fascist, was working for the borough council in Burnley when, after riots in the town in 2001, it became a stronghold of the British National Party. On Burnley Road explores the complexities of these events, not least as a way of explaining the fall of the ‘Red Wall’ nearly twenty years later ... ”
