Hannah Mitchell Foundation

05/06/2024

As we aprpoach the 80th anniversary of the D Day Landings I thought I'd share this picture of Jim Hirst, father of my good friend the late Valerie Hirst. Jim was a great guy, only met him a couple of times but a gradely Huddersfield chap. The picture was published, I think, in the national press. Very hard to imagine what they endured.

02/08/2023

Welcome to 'The Northern Salvo', merging 'The Northern Weekly Salvo' and 'Lancashire Loominary'. A bit like the old 'Salvo' really. There's stuff on our recent trip to Bath and Forest of Dean, the ULEZ controversy, Labour caution, Booking Office closures and of course my new book 'Lancastrians'. There's a piece on on 'eminent Northerners' Mary Higgs and Solomon Partington, and a short report on progress at Station House, Kents Bank. I'm building up a list of colloquial names for trains (e.g. 'Pilling Pig', 'Delph Donkey', 'The Rattler' etc.). If you know of any, I'd love to hear from you! Even better if you can offer an explanation for the name. And greetings to all my friends over on 'the dark side' today, August 1st, Yorkshire Day.

http://lancashireloominary.co.uk/index.html/northern-salvo-312

03/12/2021

Online Meeting, Saturday 4 December, 10.30am: Real Levelling Up - getting a more democratic, flourishing future for the North

The Hannah Mitchell Foundation is hosting an online public meeting featuring guest speakers Natalie Bennett (Green Party member of the House of Lords), Alex Sobel MP (Labour MP for Leeds North West), Thelma Walker (former Labour MP for Colne Valley and Chair of PAL, the Progressive Alliance of the Left) and Peoples Powerhouse's own Neil McInroy (Senior Global Fellow at Democracy Collaborative and member of PP's strategic board).

Those who attended the Peoples Powerhouse convention on 24-25 November will know that Neil has a powerful message on the need for the North to take radical political reform seriously.

Sign up on Eventbrite here to get the Zoom link for the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/real-levelling-up-a-more-democratic-flourishing-future-for-the-north-tickets-211935704397

02/09/2021

Join us this Sunday September 5th to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Winter Hill Trespass. Assemble 10.00 for 10.30 departure from bottom of Halliwell Road. Buses leave Bolton interchange at 9.30 and 10.10..hopefully the weather will be better than when we unveiled our banner!

25/08/2021

Join us in Bolton on Sunday September 5th for a walk over Winter Hill, celebrating the 125 th anniversary of the great mass trespass. Assemble 10.00 set off 10.30 from bottom of Halliwell Road. Free buses from town centre at 9.30 and 10.10, and back from Belmont in afternoon

11/05/2021

https://hannah-mitchell.org.uk/2021/05/10/press-release-labour-needs-to-rediscover-its-northern-roots/

PRESS RELEASE 10 May 2021, 18.45 Labour needs to re-discover its Northern roots The Hannah Mitchell Foundation has called for the Labour Party to re-discover its historic roots in the North of Engl…

29/01/2021

An interesting short paper by Jenny Cronin on proportional representation. First of a series of papers:

Fair votes? Arguments for Proportional Representation On the Road to a Proportional Representation Voting System Jenny Cronin, Hannah Mitchell Foundation It’s over a year on from the December 2019 General Election and we are living through the Covid19 pandemic with a Conservative government. At th...

25/01/2021

Here's an important article by Ian Martin of the 'Same Skies' think tank in Leeds, looking at issues around Englishness, regional identity and - who knows - a future independent North!

Categories Uncategorized A Journey that ends in Northumbria? Post author By Paul Salveson Post date 25/01/2021 No Comments on A Journey that ends in Northumbria? A journey that ends in Northumbria? by Ian Martin (Same Skies) Summary I knew that we’d been let down. I knew that our talent and our id...

24/11/2020

We had a good AGM on Monday (by zoom). Welcome to our new steering group! We are proposing a new broadly-based campaign - Campaign for Northern Democracy. More to follow...

13/11/2020

Jake Berry's comment about Northerners' cultural proclivities may (emphasis on 'may') have been taken out of context but its a common prejudice that us Northerners care more about 'league and football than 'high culture'. Which is boll###s. The Halle, Opera North, Royal Liverpool Symphony Orchestra...and so much more. Our choirs, bands, orchestras....forget stereotypes, The North has a proud cultural tradition and a very modern and innovative cultural range

30/10/2020

We are relaunching! After a couple of years' nap the North is wakkenin' up. We are getting a new website promoting the foundation as an inclusive think tank promoting democratic devolution for the regions of the North. It will be www.hannah-mitchell.org.UK. Will go live very soon.