Mark wrote for the Big Issue North from 2005 till the magazine closed down in May 2023, during which time his eclectic mix of articles helped promote marginalised communities across the north.
The magazine itself ran for nearly 30 years and was a source of income for homeless people.
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Bradford City Fire Survivor
A further selection of Big Issue North articles by Mark Metcalf
Landworker Magazine of Unite the Union is the oldest trade union magazine in the world.
Mark first began writing for the magazine in 2006 when he covered the story of organophosphate poisoning of shepherds that was being highlighted by Brenda Sutcliffe. This followed earlier articles in the socialist daily the Morning Star on the impact of OPs on Gulf war soldiers. Read more here
Read Mark’s articles :-
Airlines Aerotoxins
Durham Mining Museum
From Jarrow to Orgreave by Dave Temple*
*Reproduced with kind permission of Dave Temple this article was published in the 2017 Durham Miners’ Gala brochure, and is not to be republished without written permission.
Watch the The Mass Trespass of 1932 documentary (13 mins)
Community Rebuilds Grimsby
the Colin Roach Centre
Hackney Community Defence Association (HCDA)
a Trade Union approach to Access for People with Disabilities
the Trafalgar Square Defendants’ Campaign
Red Star Archive
Anti-Nazi League – a Critical Examination 1977-81/2 and 1992-5
CO-VID19
- Sheffield Group set up for Track & Trace
- Call to record CO-VID work deaths
- Test crisis at care home
- Happy to house the homeless
School Accounts investigation
Hearth and Homes
Ellen Strange: The Light that Still Burns
How the oldest domestic violence memorial site in the world is inspiring the current generation of campaigners and survivors who are tackling the problem today.
Bittersweet Brexit
Read Charlie Clutterbuck‘s book Bittersweet Brexit: the Future of Food Farming, Land and Labour here