The first authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day. More than a million hectares of Britain h

Who own's England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and darkest secret. This is the history of how England's elite came to own our land -

'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian Eno We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our

Today best remembered as one of the three original founders of the National Trust, Octavia Hill was a pioneering social reformer whose work saw education and ho

An examination of the treatment of common land in the work of English painters, at a time when much of it was to disappear forever. A most elegantly written boo