REFERENCES

BOOKS

Who Owns England?  How We Lost Our Green & Pleasant Land & How to Take It Back  Guy Shrubsole 2019.  William Collins

The Book of Trespass  Nick Hayes   2020.  Bloomsbury

Land for the Many: Changing the way our fundamental asset is used, owned and governed Independent report commissioned by the Labour Party 2019  https://landforthemany.uk/

Who Owns Britain?  Kevin Cahill  2002.  Canongate Books 

This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for Britain’s Countryside  Marion Shoard 1987.  2nd ed.1997  

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership  Andro Linklater  2014  Bloomsbury

The Land Grabbers : The New Fight Over Who owns The Earth  Fred Pearce  2012

Hedge Britannia: A Curious History of a British Obsession Hugh Barker  2012  http://hedgebritannia.wordpress.com

The Plot: A Biography of my Father’s Acre  Madeleine Bunting  2009

How Much Land Does a Man Need? Leo Tolstoy  1886

Land Law : Directions  Sandra Clarke and Sarah Greer  2008.  Oxford University Press

The Making of the English Landscape  W G Hoskins  1955

Transforming Fell and Valley : Landscape and Parliamentary Enclosure in North West England  Ian Whyte  2003

Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature  Martin Warnke 2013  Reaktion Books

Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition  Ann Birmingham 1987  Thames & Hudson

The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place 1730-1840 : An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare  John Barrell 1972  Cambridge University Press

Approaches to Landscape  Richard Muir  1999  Ch 4 Landscape, Politics and Power

Landownership and Power in Modern Europe  Martin Blinkhorn & Ralph Gibson (eds)1991, 2002.

The Wealth of the Commons:  A World Beyond Market & State  David Bollier and Silke Helfrich (eds)  2013  Levellers Press   http://wealthofthecommons.org

Edgelands: Journeys into England’s True Wilderness    Michael Symmons Roberts & Paul Farley   Cape 2011

Commoners: common right, enclosure and social change in England 1700-1820  J M Neeson  1993

The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State : A History of Property Mapping  Roger J P Kain  1992

Landscape, Nature And The Body Politic: From Britain’s Renaissance To America’s New World  Kenneth Robert Olwig  2002

England’s Landscape : The North West   Angus Winchester & Alan Crosby  2006

Maps for Family and Local History : The Records of the Tithe, Valuation Office and National Farm Surveys of England and Wales 1836-1943    Geraldine Beech and Rose Mitchell    1994    2nd ed 2004

MAGAZINES

The Land  – an occasional magazine about land rights    http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/

ACADEMIC ARTICLES

Land ownership and rural development in theory and practice: case studies from the north Pennines in the 19th and 20th centuries    Olivia J Wilson   1990   Doctoral thesis, Durham University.   http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6250/

Land ownership in the United Kingdom: Trends, preferences and future challenges   Robert Home  2009  Land Use Policy 26S S103–S108 

Law, Property, and the Geography of Violence: The Frontier, the Survey and the Grid  Nicholas Blomley 2003  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93(1): 121-141.

MAGAZINE & NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Here are a few notable ones from before 2015 when there was very little on the topic. Coverage has massively increased over the succeeding years and I have not tried to record it.

A Short History of Enclosure in Britain Simon Fairlie.  The Land:  Issue 7 Summer 2009   http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enclosure-britain

Who really owns Britain? Kevin Cahill.  Country Life: Tuesday, 16 November 2010          http://www.countrylife.co.uk/article/506200/Who-really-owns-Britain-.html

Look who owns Britain: A third of the country STILL belongs to the aristocracy  Tamara Cohen.        Daily Mail: 10 November 2010       http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328270/A-Britain-STILL-belongs-aristocracy.html

That Disturbing Devil  Ferdinand Mount.  Review of: Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership by Andro Linklater  London Review of Books: Vol 36 No9 8 May 2014   http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n09/ferdinand-mount/that-disturbing-devil

WEBSITES / BLOGS

Who Owns England?   https://whoownsengland.org

Right To Roam    https://www.righttoroam.org.uk

People’s Land Policy    https://peopleslandpolicy.home.blog/

Land Justice Network   https://www.landjustice.uk/

Land Matters  ….. the blog and website of Andy Wightman       http://www.andywightman.com      

Who Owns Scotland?    by Andy Wightman and Noel Darlow    http://www.whoownsscotland.org.uk/   

Peter Smith          http://renegadeecologist.blogspot.co.uk

Killer arguments against Land Value Tax – Not!       http://kaalvtn.blogspot.co.uk/p/index.html

Three Acres And A Cow  A History of Land Rights and Protest in Folk Song and Story           http://threeacresandacow.co.uk

Marion Shoard http://www.marionshoard.co.uk/

ORGANISATIONS

Land Registry   http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/

The Open Spaces Society    http://www.oss.org.uk/

The Community Land Trust Fund  https://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/

Henry George Foundation of Great Britain https://henrygeorgefoundation.org/

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