{"id":17450,"date":"2024-09-16T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/this-albion-snapshots-of-compromised-land\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:23:07","slug":"this-albion-snapshots-of-compromised-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/this-albion-snapshots-of-compromised-land\/","title":{"rendered":"This Albion: Snapshots of  Compromised Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-17447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fbadd8776be8d8e45376e2dfec71adc3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1755\" height=\"2480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fbadd8776be8d8e45376e2dfec71adc3.jpg 1755w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fbadd8776be8d8e45376e2dfec71adc3-600x848.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fbadd8776be8d8e45376e2dfec71adc3-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fbadd8776be8d8e45376e2dfec71adc3-312x441.jpg 312w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fbadd8776be8d8e45376e2dfec71adc3-768x1085.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fbadd8776be8d8e45376e2dfec71adc3-1087x1536.jpg 1087w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fbadd8776be8d8e45376e2dfec71adc3-1449x2048.jpg 1449w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fbadd8776be8d8e45376e2dfec71adc3-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/fbadd8776be8d8e45376e2dfec71adc3-7x10.jpg 7w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1755px) 100vw, 1755px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 21 pieces about a variety of urban and rural locations in England, Scotland and Wales, Charlie Hill takes us on a tour of post-industrial Britain. From escaping to the Highlands during the pandemic to a trip to a Soho boozer, from camping in a church in Herefordshire to playing football in inner-city Birmingham, from feeling twitchy in a Gwynedd resort town to a run-in with the builders of HS2, <i>This Albion <\/i>draws on the theories of the Situationists and the writing of Mark Fisher to create an original and accessible snapshot of a society divided and brought together by geography and class.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Hill has been longlisted for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/09\/edge-hill-short-story-prize-2024-announces-longlist-of-exceptional-literary-talent\/\"> Edge Hill Short Story prize 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This Albion: Snapshots of a Compromised Land,<\/em> by Charlie Hill, ISBN 9781912710744, is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwales.com\/bibliographic\/?isbn=9781912710744&#038;tsid=3\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 21 pieces about a variety of urban and rural locations in England, Scotland and Wales, Charlie Hill takes us on a tour of post-industrial Britain. From&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":17447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-publications-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}