The ancient rights of man, woman, hog and ghost are kept on the many commons of the county. pic.twitter.com/118FVq9zB8 — Hookland (@HooklandGuide) November 30, 2018 A major part of this project is on the long history of commons and enclosure. I’ve not
I’ve been working on the archives in Bolton relating to the Winter Hill mass trespass of 6 September 1896. More to follow but here are some links to work that has already been done on the event. ‘Will yo’ come o’ Sunday
I will be announcing the first of the public workshops soon, but in the meantime, I’ll be taking part in this debate organised by Whitechapel Gallery on the commons: rural at Manchester School of Art on 15 November, 6pm. For more details
‘Common land’ The common misconception about commons is that commoners had common land ‘taken away from them’ by the general enclosure acts of the 19th century. I’ve included many ‘commons’ in that opening sentence, deliberately. Just to pick one example of the