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In this selection from over twenty years of journalism, Ian Jack takes us to a place of which there are now only memories and ruins- the Great Britain that gave us the Industrial Revolution, a nation that led the world in feats of engineering, a Britain of empire, a place of vital cities, each with their own unique identity, a country whose residual presence can still be found in the strangest corners of the world. hese pieces set out to deal with contemporary Britain national tragedies, by-elections, football matches, obesity, chavs but are drawn back in time, vexed by the question of what came before. In Women and Children First , watching Titanic leads to an investigation into the legend of Wallace Henry Hartley, the famous band leader of the doomed liner, and a journey into the Lancashire working towns of the early 20th century; The 12.10 to Leeds , a magnificent report on the Hatfield Rail Crash, takes us right back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the search for those

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After working on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s, Ian Jack worked from 1970 to 1986 at the Sunday Times as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent. He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited the paper from 1991 to 1995. Having been editor since 1995, he left Granta in 2007 and now writes regularly for the Guardian. He is the author of two books of non-fiction - Before the Oil Ran Out- Britian 1977-86 (1987) and The Crash That Stopped Britain (2001).

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