#OurIslandStories

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I'll be giving two walks based on my book #OurIslandStories for this festival on Saturday 9th May, 2026 in #Lewes @lewesdc.bsky.social

Great @walklistencreate.org session with #corrinefowler and @walknow.bsky.social Richard White about walking in Colonial Britain #ourislandstories #walking #colonialbritain

@joelycett.bsky.social kindly getting my book #OurIslandStories. County walks through colonial Britain @waterstones.bsky.social

‘I’m not afraid of anybody now’: the woman who revealed links between National Trust houses and slavery – and was vilified Prof Corinne Fowler’s report into colonial history sparked a furore about ‘wokeness’ and heritage. We join her on one of the routes from her book of rural walks that highlight how all our lives are en...

2) "The big plantation owners abroad were also the plutocrats who walled off common land, under successive acts of enclosure, and shaped the countryside we know today." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a... #OurIslandStories

1) "the lives of ordinary British people were inevitably as intertwined with the subjects of empire...as those of the big landowners...the practice of land-grabs & subjugation of people abroad was mirrored at home." Corinne Fowler's book #OurIslandStories www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...