You might be wondering why we’re called Othersfield.
Othersfield is a historic variant spelling of the Yorkshire town of Huddersfield (Oderesfelt in the Domesday Book).
Huddersfield was one of the crucibles of the industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries, fuelled by coal and wracked by dissent.
In the mid-20th century, it was identified as an exemplar for emerging global economies in a book written for the World Bank (The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents by John Morris). Huddersfield was the epitome of 20th century civilisation, the very birthplace of the modern world, whose “horny, stocky, taciturn people were the first to live by chemical energies, by steam, cogs, iron and engine grease, and the first in modern times to demonstrate the dynamism of the human condition”.
And in the 21st, it’s still a microcosm of the economic, environmental and social challenges and opportunities facing societies around the world.
Whether you’re thinking locally or globally, the climate crisis means that we can’t rely on doing things the way they’ve always been done. There’s another better way of working.
That’s the Othersfield way.