Wednesday 8 September 2021, 2pm-5pm , online Hosted by The Museum of English Rural Life,…
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Emily Baughan on parks and policing as exclusion
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1384783942541266945.html
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Open Spaces Society fellowship at MERL update 6
I’m gathering together the main themes of the lantern slides in the OSS collection for…
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Registration of footpaths
Here’s a notice registering footpaths on Buckhurst Park on the Withyham estate of the 11th…
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Open Spaces Society lantern slides project update 5
I’ve now categorised and geo-located the majority of the c.1000 lantern slides in the Open…
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‘The problem with the preservationists’ – talk for the Changing Landscapes network symposium
You can watch my short paper on the history of preservationist movements, access, amenity and…
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links on the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill, 2021, parts 3 and 4, ‘unauthorised encampments’ and the new statutory offence of public nuisance
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9164/ (with PDF report) government response to consultation: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/strengthening-police-powers-to-tackle-unauthorised-encampments/outcome/government-response-to-the-consultation-strengthening-police-powers-to-tackle-unauthorised-encampments-accessible-version Responses: https://www.thebmc.co.uk/law-of-trespass-could-change https://www.ramblers.org.uk/news/latest-news/2021/march/ramblers-call-on-government-to-rethink-policing-bill.aspx https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/14/new-anti-protest-bill-raises-profound-concern-human-rights-groups-say https://friendsoftheearth.uk/system-change/open-letter-home-secretary-and-secretary-state-justice Commentary:…
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Winter Hill 1896 mass trespass commemoration
On 12 March 2021, I took part in an excellent discussion about the Winter Hill…
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Open Spaces Society Fellowship update 4: themes
The Open Spaces Society have now uploaded their lantern slides images to their website: http://images.oss.org.uk/…