Phil Hubbard, "Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England" (Manchester UP, 2022)
New Books in Geography
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Kent - A Very Short Coastline
I was drawn towards the Kent coast before Brexit in some ways because it's kind of a really strange coast. It's geographically very varied. You've got de-industrialized areas which used to be reliant on things like boat building, port and industries. But you've also got what have been always fairly quite desirable and almost upper class resorts and retirement as well. So I know there are a lot of coastlines like that but Kent condenses that in a very short area. And because of that variation and because of its proximity to London has become massively overheated as a housing market. A lot of people with housing wealth in London have relocated that their wealth and bought second homes and summer homes
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