Urban commons Anti-globalisation/environmental/anti-war protests Sources Operation Solstice documentary: https://youtu.be/rdztgEB5SlI Reclaim the Streets film: https://archive.org/details/ngv_lo_en_20041101_reclaim_the_streets_the_film Do or Die magazine issues 1-10: https://archive.org/details/DoOrDie08/Do%20Or%20Die%2001/ Sparrows Nest archive: https://archive.org/details/sparrowsnestlibrary?tab=collection Left.overs archive (incl May Day Rooms, Sparrows Nest): https://archive.leftove.rs/
As part of my Open Spaces Society fellowship for the Museum of English Rural Life, I hosted a symposium on open spaces, commons and trespass on 8 September 2021. We had a great range of papers, photography, poetry and campaigns highlighted. I’m
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Here’s a notice registering footpaths on Buckhurst Park on the Withyham estate of the 11th Earl de la Warr, Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, for the definitive map under the 2006 Commons Act. All footpaths need to be registered by 2026 or they
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#heritageofprotest a thread on the history of protest meetings and public space — Katrina Navickas (@katrinanavickas) May 25, 2020
I’m recently reading a lot about the concept of ‘nuisance’ in the Victorian city, and have been really taken by discussions by David Churchill, Christopher Hamlin and Andy Croll about the concept. Podcast on my initial reflections: The extract above from a
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I’ve just done a deep reading of J. M. Neeson’s now classic study of enclosure in Northamptonshire, Commoners, Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820 (Cambridge University Press, 1993). It’s important to come back to influential texts to see why
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growing bibliography on the continuing hold of the MoD on land that they requisitioned for the war efforts. Peter Coates, Tim Cole, Marianna Dudley and Chris Pearson, ‘Defending nation, defending nature? Militarised Landscapes and military environmentalism in Britain, France and the United
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I’m reappreciating Alun Howkins’s study of parliamentary enclosure in the 19th century: ‘The Use and Abuse of the English Commons, 1845– 1914’, History Workshop Journal, 78 (2014), 107–32 Howkins argued that historians have focused generally on the process of enclosure prior to
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I’m coming back to earlier archival research I did on common rights and the Commons Registration Act 1965. Key reading is chapter 4 of Christopher P Rodgers et al, Contested Common Land: environmental governance past and present (2011) and J. W. Aitchison,
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A couple of weeks ago, news of private developers netting hedges and trees to prevent migratory birds nesting in them started to raise objections on social media. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47627749 More recently, local people near the affected areas have taken action such as setting
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