{"id":1213,"date":"2022-09-19T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:20:55","slug":"are-you-lancastrian-a-questionnaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/are-you-lancastrian-a-questionnaire","title":{"rendered":"Are you Lancastrian: a questionnaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you Lancastrian? A Questionnaire<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I\u2019m in the middle of writing a book about Lancashire history, culture and identity. It will be called Lancastrians: Mills, Mines and Minarets<\/em> and will be published by Hurst next year (see www.hurst.com<\/a>). It covers a vast range of subjects including work, play, housing and health, education, art and literature, music, religion and politics.\u00a0 It includes the Lancashire \u00e9migr\u00e9s (Russia, America, Australia etc.) and also the \u2018new Lancastrians\u2019 who have settled here in the last 250 years. By \u2018Lancashire\u2019 I mean the historic county, pre-1974 boundary changes. I have a concluding chapter looking at the future of Lancashire and whether the idea of a \u2018Lancashire identity\u2019 remains strong, including in places that were \u2018taken out\u2019 in 1974: Greater Manchester, Merseyside and \u2018Lancashire north of the sands\u2019. If you could take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire I\u2019d be really grateful. I will \u2018anonymise\u2019 any references to individuals so if quoting I\u2019ll say \u2018Andrew from Darwen said..\u2019 or \u2018Sunita from Bolton said…\u2019 etc, unless you are happy for me to quote your full name.\u00a0 Give it a go \u2013 and I\u2019ll need responses by September 27th<\/sup> please. It\u2019s a word document you can continue over the page.<\/p>\n

The Questions……<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Your name (first name only if preferred) and age\u00a0 (if poss.)………………………………………………………….<\/li>\n
  2. Where were you born?…………………………………………………..<\/li>\n
  3. Where do you live now?…………………………………………………<\/li>\n
  4. Do you regard yourself as Lancastrian? YES\/NO<\/li>\n
  5. If not, what is your prime identity, e.g. English, Mancunian, European, Northern etc?:<\/li>\n
  6. Whom would you say are the five greatest Lancastrians? (feel free to say why!)<\/li>\n
  7. Do you think \u2018Lancashire\u2019 should be re-created as a single administrative unit? YES\/NO If YES, what areas should be included………………………<\/li>\n
  8. Should more political power be devolved to Lancashire\/The North? YES\/NO<\/li>\n
  9. Yorkshire has its own political party (The Yorkshire Party yorkshireparty.org.uk<\/a>). Should have Lancashire have something similar? YES\/NO. If YES, feel free to say what its objectives should be:<\/li>\n
  10. Any further general comments:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Your name and address (not for publication, ditto the following)<\/p>\n

    Email<\/p>\n

    Phone<\/p>\n

    Many thanks for your help. I will keep you updated on progress with the book. If you don\u2019t want to receive further emails, please say here………………………<\/p>\n

    Please email this back as a word document to paul.salveson@myphone.coop<\/a> (preferred) or print out and post to: 109 Harpers Lane, Bolton BL1 6HU, Lancashire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Are you Lancastrian? A Questionnaire I\u2019m in the middle of writing a book about Lancashire history, culture and identity. It will be called Lancastrians: Mills, Mines and Minarets and will be published by Hurst next year (see www.hurst.com). It covers a vast range of subjects including work, play, housing and health, education, art and literature, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}