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Travis Elborourgh

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Travis Elborough, described by The Guardian as “one of the country’s finest pop culture historians’, has been author, broadcaster and cultural commentator for close to two decade now. His books include Wish You Were Here, a survey of the British beside the seaside and A Walk in the Park, a history of public parks, acclaimed by William Boyd as ‘a fascinating, informative, revelatory book’. His liner notes can be found on the rear sleeve of 2012’s ‘Words and Music by Saint Etienne‘. With Bob Stanley from Saint Etienne, he also co-wrote the script for How We Used to Live, a BFI archive film directed by Paul Kelly, and premiered at the London Film Festival.. Elborough is a regular contributor to the Observer and the Guardian but has written for the Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, the Oldie, TATE etc., BBC History magazine and Kinfolk among others.

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  • Sali Hughes
  • Xanthi Barker
  • Claire Armitstead
  • Suzanne Noble
  • Amir Dotan
  • Caroline Rosie Dent
  • Wendy Jones
  • Louie Stowell
  • Felicity Cloake
  • Nick Thorpe
  • Serena Constance
  • Lynn Enright
  • Karen Liebenguth
  • Mariam Khan
  • Saima Mir
  • Joel Morris & Jason Hazeley
  • Julia Bueno
  • Coco Khan
  • Jean McNeil
  • Alice Lascelles
  • Anthony Cartwright
  • Joe Haddow
  • Michael Bravo
  • Tom Huddleston
  • Nadia Valman
  • Kerry Hudson
  • Dina Nayeri
  • Kostya Tsolákis
  • Francesca Segal
  • Travis Elborourgh
  • Torcuil Crichton
  • Melanie McGrath
  • Niall McDevitt
  • Nikesh Shukla
  • Catherine Steadman
  • Jamie Lee
  • Jessica Martin
  • Ana Seferović
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Mazin Saleem
  • Jody Porter
  • John Hegley
  • Shiromi Pinto
  • Patrice Lawrence
  • Alex Jackson
  • Rosie Price
  • Nicola Kent
  • Dorian Lynsky
  • Emanuelle Dirix
  • Natasha Carthew
  • Alan Johnson
  • Niki Segnit
  • Sav Akyuz
  • Zawe Ashton
  • Kiare Ladner
  • Magdalene Forés
  • Dan O’Brien
  • Paul Burston
  • Golnoosh Nour
  • Georgina Pringle
  • Francesca Cassini
  • Briony Bax
  • Kirsten Norrie
  • Jenny Linford
  • Natasha Carthew
  • Nadia Shireen
  • Martin Rowson
  • Valerie Brandes
  • Anita Sethi
  • Sophie Naufal
  • Geoff Nicholson
  • Nigella Lawson
  • Fernando Sdrigotti
  • Lara Maiklem
  • Robyn Travis
  • Isobel Galleymore
  • Lauren Laverne
  • Alex Clark
  • Crystal Mahey-Morgan
  • Michael Goldfarb
  • Will Wiles
  • Roger Robinson
  • Julius Beltrame
  • Neil Denny
  • Joel Golby
  • Elizabeth Macneal
  • Olia Hercules
  • John Osborne
  • Henny Beaumont
  • Thurston Moore
  • Ken Worpole
  • Eloise Millar
  • Anna Birch
  • Lee Jackson
  • Ed Miliband
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Richard Boon
  • Sue Quinn
  • Sheila Dillon
  • Stephen Morris
  • Jo Neary
  • Jeremy Reed
  • Yasmin Khan
  • Bruno Vincent
  • Greta Bellamacina
  • Joe Kerr
  • Jan Noble
  • Tim Wells
  • Alissa Timoshkina
  • Pete Brown
  • Andy Miller
  • Michele Kirsch
  • Johny Pitts
  • Debora Robertson
  • Rachel McCormack
  • Zia Ahmed
  • Diana Henry
  • Sean Longden
  • Caroline Bobby
  • Suzi Feay
  • Ben Moor
  • Jude Rogers
  • Kit Caless
  • Ken Worpole
  • Gareth E. Rees
  • Paul Scraton
  • Daniel Trilling
  • Ashley Hickson-Lovence
  • Robert Montgomery
  • Ryann Donnelly
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