Community stories
Writing about village life and why any of this matters.
What Roseto knew
A town in Pennsylvania, and what it suggests about knowing who your neighbours are.
By Oliver
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The town that decided what it was
A Welsh border town in decline, one man with far too many books, and what it takes to be known for something.
By Oliver
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Vegetables outside the police station
What happened when a few people in a Yorkshire town started planting food in public, mostly without asking.
By Oliver
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The village that bought its own pub
A Cumbrian village, a pub about to be sold, and one of the quietly successful ideas in rural England.
By Oliver
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Photographs by Shuvaev, Bikeboy, Humphrey Bolton and Vicki Deritis, shared under Creative Commons (CC BY-SA) and credited in full on each story.