People's Landscapes: Contested Landscapes

A roundtable discussion of the history of land access and
ownership, exploring how this has both physically and politically
shaped our land and our access to it. People's Landscapes: Beyond
the Green and Pleasant Land is a lecture series convened by the
University of Oxford’s National Trust Partnership, which brings
together experts and commentators from a range of institutions,
professions and academic disciplines to explore people’s engagement
with and impact upon land and landscape in the past, present and
future. The National Trust cares for 248,000 hectares of open space
across England, Wales and Northern Ireland; landscapes which hold
the voices and heritage of millions of people and track the
dramatic social changes that occurred across our nations' past. In
the year when Manchester remembers the 200th anniversary of the
Peterloo massacre, the National Trust’s 2019 People’s Landscapes
programme is drawing out the stories of the places where people
joined to challenge the social order and where they demonstrated
the power of a group of people standing together in a shared place.
Throughout this year the National Trust is asking people to look
again, to see beyond the green and pleasant land, and to find the
radical histories that lie, often hidden, beneath their feet. At
the first event in the series, Contested Landscapes, panelists
discuss the history of land access and ownership, exploring how
this has both physically and politically shaped our land and our
access to it. The Speakers: Alice Purkiss National Trust
Partnership Lead University of Oxford (Welcome) Helen Antrobus
National Public Programme Curator National Trust (Chair) Dr Briony
McDonagh Lecturer in Human Geography University of Hull Helen
Wright Visitor Experience Manager - Peak District National Trust Dr
Stephen Mileson Research Fellow University of Oxford Kate Ashbrook
Chair of Trustees Ramblers For more information about the People’s
Landscapes Lecture Series and the National Trust Partnership at the
University of Oxford please visit:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership