The Countryside: Three Walks Through Colonial Britain

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The Countryside: Three Walks Through Colonial Britain

08 Mar 2023, 17:30 – 19:00

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Professor Corinne Fowler (Leicester) will speak about her forthcoming book The Countryside: Ten Walks Through Colonial Britain (Penguin Allen Lane, 2023). The book journeys through Scotland, England and Wales to explore the unique colonial histories of ten rural locations. The talk focuses on three of these walks, through Dolgellau, Norfolk and Cornwall. These routes reveal the links between wool and enslavement, enclosure and slave-ownership and copper, steam and sugar plantations. To understand what specific rural landscapes and histories mean to local people today, Corinne walked these routes with companions who have ancestral connections to the British Empire.

Professor Corinne Fowler

Professor of Colonialism and Heritage in Museum Studies

University of Leicester

Corinne Fowler is Professor of Colonialism and Heritage in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. She directed a child-led history and writing project called Colonial Countryside and co-authored a 2020 report on the colonial connections of country houses belonging to the National Trust for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a charity with nearly six million members. Her most recent book is Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England’s Colonial Connections (Peepal Tree Press, 2021).