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Who Owns England? - How We Lost Our Land and How to Take it Back (Paperback)
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Who Owns England? - How We Lost Our Land and How to Take it Back (Paperback)
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'A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane Who owns
England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and
best-kept secret. This is the history of how England's elite came
to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our
countryside once more. This book has been a long time coming. Since
1086, in fact. For centuries, England's elite have covered up how
they got their hands on millions of acres of our land, by
constructing walls, burying surveys and more recently, sheltering
behind offshore shell companies. But with the dawn of digital
mapping and the Freedom of Information Act, it's becoming
increasingly difficult for them to hide. Trespassing through
tightly-guarded country estates, ecologically ravaged grouse moors
and empty Mayfair mansions, writer and activist Guy Shrubsole has
used these 21st century tools to uncover a wealth of
never-before-seen information about the people who own our land, to
create the most comprehensive map of land ownership in England that
has ever been made public. From secret military islands to tunnels
deep beneath London, Shrubsole unearths truths concealed since the
Domesday Book about who is really in charge of this country - at a
time when Brexit is meant to be returning sovereignty to the
people. Melding history, politics and polemic, he vividly
demonstrates how taking control of land ownership is key to
tackling everything from the housing crisis to climate change - and
even halting the erosion of our very democracy. It's time to expose
the truth about who owns England - and finally take back our green
and pleasant land.
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