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David Edgar: In Burnley, 23 September 2021
On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town
byMike Makin-Waite.
Lawrence and Wishart, 274 pp., £17, May,978 1 913546 02 1 Show More
byMike Makin-Waite.
Lawrence and Wishart, 274 pp., £17, May,
“... centres and youth projects in Blackburn and on Merseyside before taking what he assumed would be a quieter job, running council leisure activities in Burnley. ‘Of course we saw it coming,’ he writes of the 2001 riots. ‘The pity was that we only saw it coming afterwards.’Like the riots the same summer in Oldham and Bradford, the events in Burnley ... ”