Being English in Scotland
Being English in Scotland is the first nation-wide history ever produced of Scotland’s largest migrant population, the English.
Its author, Murray Watson tells Laurie Taylor that, contrary to popular myth and despite the undoubted legacy of the historic rivalry between their two countries, the Scots and English in Scotland get on very well indeed largely because so many English really enjoy being Scottish!
The micro-landscape of the motorway service station
As the holiday season approaches and Britons take to the roads to visit friends and family up and down the land, two social scientists, David Lawrence, writer and architectural historian and Dr Roger Green, Director of Research at the Centre for Community Research, University of Hertfordshire, make a plea for the largely unsung motorway service station.
Not quite town and definitely not country, the service station was originally designed as a life-line for hungry motorists and hungry cars. In recent years it has become an increasingly complex social space as the closing of amenities in the surrounding area has encouraged many to make it a focal point for their local networks.
Additional information:
Dr Murray Watson
Honorary Research Fellow at
Being English in Scotland
Edinburgh University Press ISBN 0748618597
David Lawrence
Writer and Architectural Historian
Always a welcome – the glove compartmeent history of the motorway service area
Between Books ISBN 0 9536980 0 9
A Logo for London
Capital Transport Publishing ISBN 1854142321
Underground Architecture
Capital Transport ISBN 1854141606
Dr Roger Green
Sociologist
Director of Research, Centre for Community Research, University of Hertfordshire
South Mimms Service Station. A Postmodernist Study
(awaiting publication)
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