50 Ideas for the North

For hundreds of years, the people of the North have led the way in making England a more prosperous place, a more enjoyable place, and a more interesting place to live. We gave the world the canals of the Industrial Revolution and railways of Stephenson’s Rocket. Merseybeat and stainless steel. Newcastle’s Lit and Phil library and the Rochdale Pioneers. Rugby League and the Manchester School of liberalism. Things with nothing in common apart from the fact they all came from the north of England.

50 Ideas For The North is our best go at showing how innovative and exciting and welcoming and positive the North can be. It’s our way of highlighting some of the most interesting new ideas coming out of the region and giving a glimpse of an even better future for the North. We don’t endorse every idea that we discuss here, and we platform them in the full knowledge that some are more quixotic and unviable than others, but we do endorse the notion that we’d all benefit from a bit more of the ingenuity and enthusiasm we saw on our tour of the North.