A series of free roundtable events convened by the University of Oxford and the National Trust.
Panellists will explore landscape as a space for living, considering the pressures on land from population growth, discussing questions of preservation vs. development, and asking: who should decide how we live in landscape? The event will be followed by a drinks reception.
Booking: Free and open to all. Booking essential: Book now via Eventbrite.
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 will remember the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, the National Trust’s 2019 People’s Landscapes programme will draw 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.
Joining this national conversation, the ‘People’s Landscapes: Beyond the Green & Pleasant Land’ events will bring 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.
2nd May: Contested Landscapes – book now
16th May: Creative Landscapes – book now
30th May: Living in Landscapes – book now
13th June: Future Landscapes – book now
The series is convened by the University of Oxford’s National Trust Partnership, a flagship collaboration which seeks to facilitate new research, knowledge exchange and public engagement with the charity’s places, properties and historic collections. Based at Oxford University, the partnership works will colleagues across a range of disciplines at both institutions. Find out more here.
Main image: Aerial view of a new housing development on greenfield land near Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire. Not National Trust land. © National Trust Images/Chris Lacey
Environmental Humanities, TORCH Programmes
