London's historic Great North Wood with Chris Schüler
Channel: Daniel Greenwood
Date: 2021-02-03

Episode 1 of the Unlocking Landscapes podcast with Chris Schüler. Hosted by Daniel Greenwood.

In this episode we talk about the following things:

- What inspired Chris to write the book and how he went about it
- How the Great North Wood (GNW) was managed
- How the GNW differs from other southern English wooded landscapes such as the Sussex Weald
- The violent history of the GNW
- How the plague impacted people living in the GNW
- The GNW’s celebrities
- Some of the now rare species recorded in the GNW centuries ago
- The concerns about invasive species are not as new as we think