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Guardian feature: ‘It’s scary how many St George’s flags there were’: Blood Orange on coming home to Essex and mourning his mother

My Guardian feature on These New Puritans

BUY See You Down Raquels: Clubbing and Commune-ing in Essex, edited by Tim Burrows

Latest Guardian long read: ‘Ryan Reynolds never had to deal with this’: the slow death and (possible) rebirth of Southend United

Feature for Guardian Sport - The Haaland safari: Bryne celebrates its famous son in Norway’s newest tourist attraction

The Invention of Essex book extract via the Guardian long read: The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us

The Invention of Essex - buy and learn more via Profile Books

Guardian long read from 2019: The invention of Essex: how a county became a caricature

New Statesman 2024 election: the betrayal of Essex man

Nigel Farage thinks leave-voting Clacton will welcome his return. He may be in for a surprise | Tim Burrows

From collective ambition to crumbling concrete: Essex is a totem of Britain’s decline | Tim Burrows

Starmer thought he’d found the nation’s pulse in Essex. Here’s what ‘Essex man’ made of him | Tim Burrows

A year ago my Essex home town was abuzz at becoming a city – now a ‘toxic’ culture war has taken over | Tim Burrows

Letter from Essex: Southend, land of cockles and candyfloss, is a city at last

Free Thinking - Essex special on BBC Radio 3, with Simon Heffer and others. Hosted by Matthew Sweet

Talking Essex on BBC Radio 4's Today programme

Spectator review: 'Exceptionally well-written and intelligent... a thoughtful, atmospheric book of genuine insight and erudition'

FT review: 'Burrows does not disappoint. There is always another story, a myth concealing a reality “mysterious, unknowable and incongruous.” And he has a lyrical turn of phrase'...

Times review: 'Burrows's new book is part-memoir, part-travelogue and part-political tract'...