From 2019 to 2021, a period during which geographer Ben Rogaly published Stories from a Migrant City, which focuses on Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, an online poll ranked Peterborough as the worst place to live in England. In other words, this provincial city is, as Britons would phrase it, a quintessential “crap town.” So, why would Rogaly bother to research and write about this uninspiring backwater, or so its reputation holds, especially in the context of Brexit?
