Bygone Burnley this week takes us out of the borough and into neighbouring Pendle, and the historic village of Higham.

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

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Chartism – the first great working-class movement – was, from the late 1830s onwards, an expression of this. The other revolution was ideological and political, but ultimately rooted in the social ...

But not being able to answer the question of why I won't hold a general election less than four months after a securing a landslide majority without barely concealed disdain for the presenter (and ...