The history and politics of the English protest song

  • February 24, 2022
  • by Alan Finlayson and Oskar Cox Jensen

Maggie Holland

OSV and Maggie Holland discuss her award-winning song 'A Place Called England', her wider work, influences, and an encounter with Christopher Hill

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In the interview, we touch on Maggie’s song ‘Morecambe Bay’, about the 2004 cockle picking ‘disaster’, which is available on Bandcamp. Christopher Hill’s seminal text is The World Turned Upside Down:Radical Ideas During the English Revolution. We also recommend Home Stage’s video interview, in which Maggie performs a selection of her songs. Maggie is currently writing and recording a new album; keep up to date at @maggiejholland.