Alex Niven’s The North Will Rise Again looks at the North’s cultural history
of modernism, progressivism and radicalism. Sean Morley speaks to Niven about Brian Ferry, regional devolution – and how the
North invented sci-fi.
As Sheffield joins nearby cities in being begrudgingly placed under a new wave of government-imposed lockdown restrictions, we talk to Alex Niven about what this might mean for the north as a political concern.