Corinne Fowler

YouTube video by Balsam Bashing Conservation Conversation - Prof. Corinne Fowler (Our Island Stories)

Great chat with film maker and environmentalist John Tween in Moseley Bog, a place associated with Tolkein & much loved by the poet Benjamin Zephaniah
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxeo...

Well worth watching for a calm, considered and historical consciousness- expanding chat in and on the countryside!

YouTube video by Balsam Bashing Conservation Conversation - Prof. Corinne Fowler (Our Island Stories)

Great chat with film maker and environmentalist John Tween in Moseley Bog, a place associated with Tolkein & much loved by the poet Benjamin Zephaniah
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxeo...

Restitution: historic agreement between Cameroon & German Federal government
dekolonial-erinnern.de/historic-bre...

Thanks Pauline

Freelancers: in your experience what percentage of event organizers care about your convenience, comfort or wallet? (The latest suggested train time by a low-paying organization, hours after my speaking event ends, on a dark Autumn night).

That's great of you. I think the way something is written is also an important, inclusive aspect of any book

Our Island Stories The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, ...

7/7 but as @corinnefowler.bsky.social shows, colonialism is embedded in much of our countryside: www.penguin.co.uk/books/448060...

1/7 I gave a talk yesterday at this lovely little church nestled in the picturesque South Downs. You couldn’t really imagine a more idyllic spot, or such incongruity with the subject matter: the deep relationships between this church, slavery and colonialism.

www.achurchnearyou.com/church/5062/

"Thinking is difficult. That is why people prefer to judge." Jung

Yesterday I turned down an invitation to speak on R4 Moral Maze because we need calm, compassionate conversations of substance. Here's one such: @davidolusoga.bsky.social & @alanlester.bsky.social on our relationship with history & why we all benefit from honest engagements with our national past.

It's brilliant

Yesterday I turned down an invitation to speak on R4 Moral Maze because we need calm, compassionate conversations of substance. Here's one such: @davidolusoga.bsky.social & @alanlester.bsky.social on our relationship with history & why we all benefit from honest engagements with our national past.

Am a keynote speaker here: Remapping the Brontes, ahead of our Bronte parsonage museum exhibition in 2026
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"Thinking is difficult. That is why people prefer to judge." Jung

2. As I show in my book, slavery profits are the missing piece in our so-called domestic story of enclosure and the loss of the commons.

Out in paperback now and cannot recommend highly enough:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Proud to call Emma Bal @agentbal.bsky.social my agent

Corinne Fowler: Exploring the hidden history of the British countryside, one walk at a time Professor Corinne Fowler joins the Country Life Podcast.

www.countrylife.co.uk/podcast/cori...

Corinne Fowler: Exploring the hidden history of the British countryside, one walk at a time | Country Life Professor Corinne Fowler joins the Country Life Podcast.

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It has been. It's called The Countryside, published by Scribner

Thanks so much

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1 of 2. Today, an entire village faces eviction. Slavery wealth also paid for 18th & 19th "village removals" to accommodate landscape redesign. Bridehead estate's slavery links show potent parallels btwn slavery & land dispossession. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Private Equity strikes again!

Sounds familiar! Same playbook, different country!

Ooh this looks good.

Ideas Lab: New Art Commission at Bristol Cathedral - Bristol Cathedral Bristol Cathedral is inviting visual artists to participate in an exciting commission to create a permanent artwork celebrating the resilience, culture, and faith of African and Afro-Caribbean communi...

A good truth-telling initiative for artists who want to engage with Edward Colston history.
bristol-cathedral.co.uk/event/ideas-...

“The more the Daily Telegraph tells me to ignore the sins of Empire, the more I want to read up on it” says Trusty, the erstwhile #NationalTrust mascot, “as it seems there’s something they don’t want us to know. It’s called the Streisand Effect”.
@corinnefowler.bsky.social
@mhtaylor.bsky.social

2. As I show in my book, slavery profits are the missing piece in our so-called domestic story of enclosure and the loss of the commons.

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England | George Monbiot This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1 of 2. Today, an entire village faces eviction. Slavery wealth also paid for 18th & 19th "village removals" to accommodate landscape redesign. Bridehead estate's slavery links show potent parallels btwn slavery & land dispossession. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...