‘This Land is Our Land’, Marion Shoard (1987) – A Book in Five Minutes, No.6
Channel: ramblinactivist
Date: 2021-11-07

Ramblinactivist 2021/24, 7th November 2021

“To wrest a share of control over the countryside from its firmly entrenched rulers may seem an almost impossibly difficult task... In fact, the chance of change is real enough.”

Thirty-five years ago Marion Shoard published a book which still stands as one of the landmark books documentaing the history of English land rights -- and the urgency for a change in the present patterns of land ownership and exploitation in Britain which have endured since the ‘dispossession’ of the land almost 1,000 years ago.

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