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Everyone Here in West Cumbria

May 2, 2026

Everyone Here in West Cumbria: Culture, Ecology and Infrastructure (April 2026) focuses on one aspect of our work with the West Cumbria CPP programme, Everyone Here, which the University have been involved with from the initial conceptualisation and bidding phase in early 2020 through to the present (with Everyone Here now at the end of its first 4-year funding phase).

The report concerns issues of cultural infrastructure and cultural ecology in West Cumbria and how these relate to challenges faced by Everyone Here as it initially sought to established itself, and its subsequent work in influencing how both of those things - cultural infrastructure and ecology - have been confronted and renewed through the action research ethos that Everyone Here's practices bring into being.

The report can be viewed at archive.org

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Reviews‘In these domestic travel writings, reminiscent of Jonathan Raban or Iain Sinclair, John Scanlan tours West Cumbria, framing its history in stark contrast to the “other Cumbria” of the Lake District. Without pretence to immutability, he finds…

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‘In these domestic travel writings, reminiscent of Jonathan Raban or Iain Sinclair, John Scanlan tours West Cumbria, framing its history in stark contrast to the “other Cumbria” of the Lake District. Without pretence to immutability, he finds West Cumbria to be dynamic, having always ‘pointed itself towards the future through industrial change and both in and out migration.’ — Cumbria Life magazine.

‘Does a remarkable job in capturing the essence of this region’ —Tidelines magazine

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