The New Statesman
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Tim Burrows' new book, The Invention of Essex, is set to be published in February 2019.
The author grew up in the East End of London and moved to Stisted, north Essex, in 1964.
His great-grandfather, Andrew, was the offspring of bakers who lived in St Andrews, Scotland, but his descendants scattered through East Anglia, devoting themselves to finding new ways of burning through the money he’d made.
“Leafy” rural Essex doesn’t get much of a look-in though Burrows does make a trip to “Constable Country’s Constable County’ The book focuses most intently on what turns out to be its main subject namely, the way in which parts of Essex have functioned as “a Petri dish for the experiments of modernity”.
In 2022, Essex Council announced a 300,000 campaign to revise the image that in the 1990s had made the county a byword for brashness.
In doing so, it contributed to making the mere idea’ of buying a house “as unobtainable as a unicorn ride”.
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