Frontierlands

byHazel Sheffield

Britain’s Survival in the Making

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'Frontierlands' are Britain's forgotten places, ripe for reinvention. Once economic engines, they are the outposts that investors and the state have forgotten: silt-filled harbours, overgrown forests, sunken railway tracks and empty buildings. They are the symptoms of an ever more centralised country but they are home to local communities, and among these, pioneers, working together to repair and rebuild.

Through inspiring storytelling, acclaimed journalist Hazel Sheffield takes readers on a journey that begins at the edges of Britain and travels inward via hoardings and railway arches, factories, streets and neighbourhoods to our homes. Moving from the South West to Gateshead in the North East, from Lancashire to London and the South East, she introduces us to the people who are acting to shape their own futures - people with first-hand knowledge of the problems Britain faces and with clear ideas how to make things better.

This is a book of community spirit, regeneration, empowerment and hope. We will question our assumptions about the workings of the world and learn how we can build a different one, ready for the enormous upheaval on the horizon - challenging the frontiers of our own minds.

About Hazel Sheffield

Hazel Sheffield was a Fulbright scholar in digital media at the Columbia Journalism School in New York. She works as a freelance journalist and investigative reporter for the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times, and many other national and international publications. In 2021, she was shortlisted for environment and energy journalist of the year at the British Journalism Awards.

Hazel was the business editor of the Independent until summer 2016, when she left to found farnearer.org. This multi-grant-winning project documents self-organising communities and economic alternatives. In 2019, Far Nearer was highly commended in the Georgina Henry Award for Innovation at the Society Of Editors’ Press Awards. In 2021, Hazel returned to these communities for her newsletter series Revisiting Britain.

In 2020, Hazel co-ordinated a cross-border team investigating the impact of Europe’s renewable energy subsidies on Eastern Europe’s forests, with a grant from the European Union’s IJ4EU fund. Money to Burn was published across 10 newsrooms including the Guardian, Die Zeit Online and Publico. The investigation has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Sigma Data Awards, Covering Climate Now Awards and the IJ4EU Impact Award. It was highly commended in the innovation category at the 2021 European Press Prize.

Hazel regularly runs writing workshops and speaks at events, including Hacks Hackers London, Arena’s DataHarvest festival and IJ4EU’s Uncovered conference. In 2022/3, she was a European Journalism Fellow at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Frontierlands is her first book.
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  • Imprint: Torva
  • ISBN: 9781911709312
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Price: £20.00
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