Beyond the 100 mile city. Some thoughts about the impact of the Coalition's cultural policies at the edge of London's cultural hinterland

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Notes

1. Witness the demise of a dozen or more regional theatre companies in the Home Counties (especially Surrey and Essex) where the names of great theatrical families including Thorndike and Redgrave crowned the new theatre buildings of the 1970s, and are still presenting yearly repertory seasons.

2. The University cities of Oxford and Cambridge were always exceptions to this general proposition – forming a kind a cultural city state in themselves.