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 http://www.marionshoard.co.uk/
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. http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/he/Faculty/Kedar/lecdb/general/387.pdf
MAGAZINE & NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
This section was produced in 2015. I have not updated it because it provides an interesting reminder of how few articles there had been on this topic by that date. Coverage has massively increased over the succeeding years.
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
Aristocracy loses countryside to pension funds and National Trust Louise Gray. Daily Telegraph 10 November 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/8119956/Aristocracy-loses-countryside-to-pension-funds-and-National-Trust.html
The coming battle over land and property Jason Cowley. New Statesman: 19 October 2010 http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/10/land-tax-labour-britain
Access to Land: Social Class, Activism and the Genealogy of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act Ben Mayfield. 2010 Statute Land Review 31(1) 63-83
Land reform remains one of the great progressive causes : The government needs to be much more rigorous about taxing wealth and static assets. New Statesman: Leader: 29 March 2012 http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2012/04/land-government-million
Our countryside has once again become a playground for the rich George Monbiot The Guardian: 4 June 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/04/wildlife-land-aristocracy
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
No wonder landowners are scared. We are starting to learn who owns Britain George Monbiot. The Guardian : 3 December 2014 www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/03/landowners-scotland-britain-feudal-highland-spring?CMP=share_btn_fb
SNP-led Scottish Government unveils radical plans to tackle land ownership inequality The proposals have been met with dismay by some of Scotland's landowners The Independent : 23 June 2015 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/snpled-scottish-government-unveils-radical-plans-to-tackle-inequality-in-land-ownership-10340098.html
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
ORGANISATIONS
Land Registry http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/
Three Acres And A Cow A History of Land Rights and Protest in Folk Song and Story http://threeacresandacow.co.uk
The Open Spaces Society http://www.oss.org.uk/
The Community Land Trust Fund http://www.cltfund.org.uk/
Henry George Foundation of Great Britain www.landandliberty.net
