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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: Our Island Stories: Ten Walks Through Rural Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire, Corinne Fowler (2024), with Ingrid Pollard (EMPIRE LINES Live at Invasion Ecology)
Description: In this special episode, historian Corinne Fowler joins EMPIRE LINES live with visual artist and researcher Ingrid Pollard, linking rural British landscapes, buildings, and houses, to global histories of transatlantic slavery, through their book, Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain (2024).Though integral to national identity in Britain, the countryside is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. In Our Island Stories, historian Corinne Fowler brings together rural life and colonial rule, through ten country walks with various companions. These journeys combine local and global history, connecting the Cotswolds to Calcutta, Dolgellau to...