AHRC research project: Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives: Biographical and Life History Perspectives on Landscape. Tweets by Jeremy Burchardt @ReadingRuralist
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Brilliant video project on allotments and sustainable food from poet, artist and scholar-activist JC Niala. Keep up the great work JC! youtu.be/3bbl0idJ5IY?si=Yzg_…
Great initiative by Henna Asikainen to explore Hadrian's Wall and local Northumberland landscapes with refugees and other people new to the area, documented at the Future Pasts exhibition in Newcastle d6culture.org/future-pasts-e…
'A Sense of Place' - Changing Landscapes symposium and Lifescapes book launch, Thurs 15 June 3pm-6pm, University of Reading and by Zoom. All welcome. Please message or email me [email protected] if you'd like to attend/for Zoom link #landscapes #places #ruralhistory
The way the church seems to grow out of the landscape and echo its forms reminds me of Blatten in the Lötschental
Landscape provided vital emotional sustenance for Violet Almgill Dickinson, a talented if underappreciated amateur artist who takes centre stage in chapter 5 of my new book. The cover features one of her watercolours, bright with life and movement #landscape #Somerset #Lifescapes
You might like this online lecture if you haven't heard it already: youtube.com/watch?v=58b8TAFK…
Why does landscape matter to us? I find this an utterly absorbing and compelling question. After nearly twenty years of research, I think I now have an answer. You can find it in ‘Lifescapes’, due out with @CambridgeUP next month.
ALT Cover of 'Lifescapes' by Jeremy Burchardt. Shows a track, gate and trees.
No one wrote denunciations like Cobbett. This is my favourite from Rural Rides, rather prescient since the Swing Riots followed within four years.
I've been very much enjoying this study of four pioneering rural preservationists, Octavia Hill, Beatrix Potter, Sylvia Sayer and Pauline Dower, by Changing Landscapes' Matthew Kelly @Scorhill #WomensHistory #landscape
ALT Cover of Matthew Kelly's book, 'The Women who Saved the English Countryside'
Reviewed this intriguing and thought-provoking study for the BJES recently. Dartington Hall in its prime was one of the most influential of the many attempts to create utopia communities in the British countryside
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What does landscape mean to you? 'Changing Landscapes' and @TheMERL have put together an online exhibition about the personal meanings landscape has for some of us: merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/o…
ALT Winterbourne Houghton in the snow
Changing Landscape's Paul Brassley has written this new history of British farming since WW2 - essential reading for anyone who wants to understand 'the triumph and the shame' (Richard Body) tinyurl.com/2p8jkwzc
Tens of thousands of daffodils line the green lanes north of Ibthorpe, Hampshire, planted decades ago by the landowner. A modern version of the c.18th ferme ornee, which aimed to show that working agricultural landscapes could be beautiful #gardenhistory #landscapedesign
ALT Daffodils lining a green lane north of Ibthorpe, Hampshire, UK