Got home to find this beautifully generous review of GREYHOUND in the current @thetls.bsky.social Thank you to Tom Lathan for engaging so deeply with the book: Tthe author deftly weaves together swathes of American history to lay bare the unsustainable nature — and stupidity — of modern life…. (1)

My travel books of the year, including work from @monisharajesh.bsky.social, Lyse Doucet, Norman Lewis, @joannapocock.bsky.social, @adamweymouth.bsky.social & @peteralanross.bsky.social: deskboundtraveller.com/my-books-of-....

Lancashire - England's most underrated county, argues Chris Moss in the @telegraph.co.uk @traveloguer.bsky.social Chris's LANCASHIRE: Exploring the Historic County that made the Modern World is out in February. www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...

Lovely write-up of This Slavery for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social - written with affection and admiration for Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the Lancashire that made her possible Thank you @traveloguer.bsky.social @selfmadehero.bsky.social www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/reco...

New exhibition ‘Cottonopolis: The origins of global Manchester’ is now open. Explore how 18th century Manchester was transformed into a manufacturing powerhouse and the centre of Britain’s booming cotton industry. 📅Visit Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm. Free entry.

My review of the gorgeously gritty graphic novel This Slavery by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the Rickard Sisters - in Tribune magazine tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/reco...

My 2025 resolution was to visit some of the places in The Guardian series ‘Where tourists seldom tread’. First, #Walsall. I only had 5 hours free inc travel time so the main draw was New Art Gallery followed by a wander around. There’s so much more though! #WestMidlands #Architecture

Doncaster - the point of no return; Carlisle - the midway city; Swansea: westering and wondrous - latest Where Tourists Seldom Tread www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Remembering Richard Gott After Pinochet's coup, the UK Embassy pushed a pro-junta slant One UK official hoped ‘The hours of Embassy briefings & the gin and tonics on the patio' would prevent anti-junta reporting But Gott ignored it & exposed Pinochet's abuses www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

We've just added more historic Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland to our website. You can now compare first edition one-inch to the mile maps dating from the 1860s to 1870s with second edition maps published between 1898 and 1902. maps.nls.uk/os/one-inch-...

“It was a place to while the afternoon drinking coffee and brandy” Oh the entire days we lost in the Gijón…

You have until this Saturday to guess #HowManyHorses there are in This Slavery graphic novel to WIN a signed & illustrated copy! Just follow us, share & give us a number - the closest guess wins!

Double decker trains - in a double decker England: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/...

Good to see Nelson, Lancs getting tourism props in the Guardian. Also: Wilkinsons the best 2nd hand hifi shop in the north; Slaters ice cream parlour; Mansha sweet centre; and Music Box for records/DVDs. Plus Nelson FC once beat Real Madrid, away. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Steel and cotton meet bootleather - the new walking trail (close to the Hope Valley railway line) linking Manchester and Sheffield: www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Where tourists seldom tread, part 19: three UK towns with industrial legacies

You know how we’ve been trying to persuade you all to go to Great Harwood? Well look at this bit in the Guardian about the joys of nearby Nelson… Thank you for the mention (and the link!) Chris 🔥✊

Latest Seldom column - Paisley, Nelson and Leicester : Romans, Victorians, Cluniacs (and punks), and Gerry Rafferty www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015. Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...

Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion

Port towns freighted with history: Lancaster, Ramsey, Ipswich #WhereTouristsSeldomTread www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Chanced on this novel in Ayr Waterstones - the chain’s “Scottish Book of the Month” for June, a nominee in the first Booker, back in 1969. It is a read-in-a-day blinder - at least as good as the Midlands/Yorks social realist fictions of those days, and much more brutally honest.

I wrote about this stretch of canal for the new edition of the Violette Records newsletter, Science & Magic. It's the 3rd edition of my fortnightly 'Magnetic North' contribution. Further signals from 'Ghost Town'. You can subscribe to the newsletter here: www.violetterecords.com/subscribed

Fed up of choking on smoke from nearby grouse moors, Sheffield residents have set up @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, to push for a community buyout of the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Moor - & use new powers under forthcoming ‘Community Right to Buy’ legislation 1/ www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...

Louvre workers strike to protest overtourism, shutting down world's most-visited museum www.france24.com/en/france/20...

BBC on #overtourism in Europe www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Airbnb boss denies responsibility for #overtourism www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/lif...

Campaigners mount coordinated protests across Europe against ‘touristification’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

This is Runcorn town centre. Huge buildings absolutely empty, derelict. Half empty shopping centre. Grandmothers chatting about their wee Johnny recovering from being stabbed. This isn’t the fault of immigrants or refugees. This is 45 years of constant cuts and neglect from Westminster.

Lancashire, the Red Rose county - historic crucible of industry, seminal in the rise of the Labour movement, ILP and modern party - turned turquoise today. An electoral suicide note.

This is a great radio show - on tango’s zigzagging journey from Buenos Aires to central and eastern Europe; a welcome change from Paris, Piazzolla and the usual fallbacks

The Pennine Way celebrates its 60th birthday with a spur to Lancashire - the Two Toms Trail: www.burnleyexpress.net/arts-and-cul...

The Pennine Way celebrates its 60th birthday with a spur to Lancashire - the Two Toms Trail: www.burnleyexpress.net/arts-and-cul...

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

💪 #DoTheWriteThing #MetaThieves

Doncaster - the point of no return; Carlisle - the midway city; Swansea: westering and wondrous - latest Where Tourists Seldom Tread www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Wow. That's a huge deal. I really hope the BBC and C4 see Adolescence for what it is in relation to them: namely a *massive* booming shot across the bows. A brilliant show and furthermore, exactly the kind of show they should be making.

Venice is doubling entry fees for 2025, just one of the latest self-preservationist acts by a city heavily affected by tourism year-round. Find out more: bit.ly/3F1BbAU #venice #veniceitaly #italy #overtourism #masstourism #travel #venezia #greentravel #vacation #springbreak

Ten beautiful bookshops www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advic...

Women are the future of travel, in the most literal sense: 82% of all travel decisions are already made by women, according to @skift.com. Older women traveling solo are a fast-growing demographic, and many are seeking out single-gender group trips. www.afar.com/magazine/wom...

“A photographer who doesn’t value, reflect on, look at their photographs has died a digital death” The snap v the upload - why holiday photos matter: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/comme...

The once venerable Washington Post firmly now en route to D Mail editorial and Express readership stats. Can’t someone launch a UK/Euro delivery service to compete with Amazon? Argentina has one. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

The definitive #walking guide to historic #Kyoto and avoiding #overtourism! Visit amazing places most others will never see! Hidden Paths Kyoto: Walking Historical Kyoto - by @pjacksonmusic.bsky.social www.amazon.com/HIDDEN-PATHS... #travel #Japanese #history

The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable. Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

Overdevelopment and #overtourism Rice paddies to mega resorts: declassified spy satellite images reveal Bali’s transformation www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Where tourists seldom tread, part 15: three more UK towns with unsung stories

Seldom #15 in Guardian Travel: Dudley, Enniskillen, Middlesbrough - three towns ideal for a spring (cultural) break: www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

2024 will set records: 1.53 billion people travelling worldwide; $11.1 trillion - highest contribution from tourism to the global GDP; number of air passengers will surpass 5 billion…. How not to be part of the #overtourism problem: www.countryliving.com/uk/travel-id...