Traveloguer: Chris Moss

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

Cotton, coal, canals and women's football Lancashire Chris Moss, Old Street Publishing, £25CHRIS MOSS is an interesting travel writer whose four previously published books combine travel, history and culture. Born in Lancashire, in this ...

'Fascinating' - Morning Star's review of Chris Moss's LANCASHIRE: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World. @mstaronline.bsky.social @traveloguer.bsky.social morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cott...

Lancashire's impressive place in history - BBC Sounds Chris Moss's new book charts Lancashire's contribution to the modern world.

Lancashire - first canals, first motorways, first factories, first mills, first working class authors, first professional football, first rugby professionals.

Chris Moss on LANCASHIRE: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World.

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Exploring LANCASHIRE with author Chris Moss - TripFiction Lancashire: Exploring the historic county that made the modern world by Chris Moss. Lancashire came into being during the reign of the Plantagenets and

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Front cover of David Keenan’s book Boyhood. Boy blowing bubblegum and smiling into the camera

David Keenan’s new book ‘Boyhood’ is astonishingly good and I’m VERY excited to be in conversation with him on Monday 13 April at Liverpool Waterstones. Come!
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Lancashire's impressive place in history - BBC Sounds Chris Moss's new book charts Lancashire's contribution to the modern world.

From a BBC Radio Lancashire interview earlier this week, conducted by Sharon Hartley (also an author). Thanks to local media for their support for my book (coz London certainly isn’t going to be any help)

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Warning as study finds 800,000 more UK homes at high risk of flooding Stark findings expose impact of global warming on British households

Friends of the Earth's own analysis of Environment Agency data shows that 2.4 million people across the UK are already at the highest risk of flooding.

Find out if your home is at risk here: foe.uk/ay69f

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Imagine being this lowlife - the overpaid PR who is wheeled out every day to justify every squirm and fob off and outright deny insult to bill payers -

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Really pleased to hear that the Guardian’s enchanting travel series, ‘where tourists seldom tread’, by Chris Moss @traveloguer.bsky.social will be published by Faber this year. Will make a great book to have around to enhance any incidental travel in this country.

Minister Reed challenged to release his Mandelson messages The former DEFRA minister ignored all calls to nationalise the water industry. Now campaigners want to know why, and whether lobbying firm Global Counsel had any role in the matter Steve Reed, the …

#DirtyBusiness shows water privatisation has FAILED

So why did the government's review of the industry ban the OPTION of public ownership?

Steve Reed must release any messages with Peter Mandelson - whose company Global Counsel worked for privatised water

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I took a hop-on, hop-off bus through a spectacularly underrated English landscape The Forest of Bowland is among the treasures of Lancashire

Bowland by bus - in the ipaper

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Chris Moss beside projection screen showing new book - Lancashire: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World

Thank you to the Book Stop in St Helens for a warm and enjoyable book launch for Lancashire: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World

North East town with iconic 'coffin-styled' pub crowned one of Britain's best Gateshead in Tyne and Wear has been named one of the best big towns in Britain, according to a travel expert at The Telegraph - see why

Great to see Gateshead being recognised as one of Britain's top towns by Chris Moss at @telegraph.co.uk, with a mention for the Tyne Derwent Way. Read more in @thenorthernecho.bsky.social

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Happy publication day to Chris Moss's wonderful LANCASHIRE: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World.

Is St Helens still Lancashire? Exploring the county that made the modern world AUTHOR and journalist Chris Moss has written about travels across the world, but his latest piece of work is one close to his heart.

New book on Lancashire out next week

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Is St Helens still Lancashire? Exploring the county that made the modern world AUTHOR and journalist Chris Moss has written about travels across the world, but his latest piece of work is one close to his heart.

Is St Helens still Lancashire? Exploring the county that made the modern world

Happy paperback publication day to Old Street's first two GREAT EVENTS books: Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Death of Stalin and Linda Jaivin's The Cultural Revolution in China. Brilliant works exploring turning points in history - and all in 128 pages.

Lancashire: Exploring the Historic County that Made the Modern World by Chris Moss, published by Old Street on 17 Feb 2026

Alfred Wainwright, born into poverty on this day in Blackburn in 1907. He left school aged 13 and became an office boy in Blackburn Borough Engineer’s Department. At age 23 he took a holiday away from home, to the Lake District. It was love at first sight. A #Lancashire story:

An assemblage in a wooden box, old book, cigarette card of seahorse, seashell, two small books, circular metal frame with found photo of small girl. Up the Rainbow Stairs

Up the Rainbow Stairs. The Sacred Memory Bank. Kirkby Gallery. Works by Mike Badger and Jeff Young. Monday 19th January - Friday 27th March. Come and see us!

LANCASHIRE: EXPLORING THE HISTORIC COUNTY THAT MADE THE MODERN WORLD will be published Feb 17 by @oldstpublishing.bsky.social Three years in the making. History meets memoir meets travel. Food, sports, TV; Engels, The Fall, Bet Lynch… and all the other great "manufactures" that have come from here.

Our Friends in the North 30 years on from the first episode of this groundbreaking drama, we take a closer look into the programme’s archive to reveal a time capsule of a turbulent era.

It was 30 years ago today that BBC Two transmitted the opening episode of Our Friends in the North - one of the greatest television dramas the BBC has ever made.

For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...

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Ride the Bus A memoir reflects on a woman’s replicated bus journey across America two decades later, capturing the country’s increasingly stark inequality and greed, along with the unexpected beauty (and expected ...

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Last Thoughts on Gerry Gable and his War Against the Fascists Gerry Gable, the most tenacious post-war anti-fascist Britain ever produced, had been ill for some time when he finally passed away on Saturday, January 3, 2026.

I missed the recent death of Gerry Gable, founder of Searchlight and legendary London anti-fascist. Here's an excellent obituary. leadenskies.substack.com/p/gerry-gabl...

‘The source of all life is here’: plan to mine lithium in Chilean salt flat sparks fears of water scarcity The Colla Indigenous people claim Rio Tinto’s plans to extract the key mineral will harm fragile ecosystems and livelihoods

El plan de Río Tinto para extraer litio en Chile podría amenazar las fuentes de agua, dicen las comunidades indígenas del pueblo Colla
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Boxing Day offerings The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) seems to make a habit of Boxing Day announcements. On Boxing Day 2024 it pledged to repeal the 2031 cut-off for recording historic…

“We had not envisaged that the river walks would be on existing highways. What a swizz.”

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First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west Mersey Valley Way takes in Manchester and Stockport on its 13-mile route with other walks to be identified in 2026

“No footpath would be created as part of the “new” river walk”. Er…

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