Author: Guy Shrubsole
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780008321710
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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 - from aristocrats and the church to businessmen and corporations - and an inspiring manifesto for how we can take control back.
Author: GUY. SHRUBSOLE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780008321680
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Guy Shrubsole
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008321698
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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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.
Author: Kevin Cahill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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A startling expose of Britain's most valuable asset - its land. Kevin Cahill's investigations reveal how the 6000 or so landowners -mostly aristocrats, but also large institutions and the Crown - own about 40 million acres, more than half the country, and have maintained their grip on the land right throughout the 20th century.
Author: Andy Wightman
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857900765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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New and Updated Edition Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In this book, Andy Wightman updates the statistics of landownership in Scotland and explores how and why landowners got their hands on the millions of acres of land that were once held in common. He tells the untold story of how Scotland's legal establishment and politicians managed to appropriate land through legal fixes. Have attempts to redistribute this power more equitably made any difference, and what are the full implications of the recent debt-fuelled housing bubble, the Smith Commission and the new Scottish Government's proposals on land reform? For all those with an interest in urban and rural land in Scotland, this updated edition of The Poor Had No Lawyers provides a fascinating analysis of one the most important political questions in Scotland.
Author: Nick Hayes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781526604729
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Marion Shoard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781856750646
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 521
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This volume shows how ramblers, road protesters and country lovers are coming together to challenge the rural land ownership regime. It argues that the urban population should use its democratic strength to deprive rural landowners of their grip on the countryside. first of a series of forthcoming challenges to landowner control of the countryside. It was followed by the 100,000-strong protest of the landowners' Countryside Alliance at Hyde Park in July 1997. This work on the politics of rural land ownership, appears on the eve of the second reading of the fox-hunting Bill. the last 1000 years, and analyzes the current ownership of the countryside. It unveils a radical programme of action, setting out a new social contract through which landowners and the people would share control of the countryside.
Author: John Martin Robinson
Publisher: Aurum Press
ISBN: 9781845136703
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A stunning visual record of England's most spectacular and scenic country estates that were broken up for sale and lost for ever. A sweeping country estate, with grand house and spectacular gardens and park, would not be the first impression of a visitor to modern suburban Watford. But well into the twentieth century that was exactly what was there – the magnificence of the Cassiobury estate, of which only a modest municipal park survives. Underneath the expanse of Rutland Water lies the once splendid Normanton estate, while Deepdene in Surrey is now memorialised only by an ugly office block. Fortunately, at least photographs live on to remind us of how the landscape looked before death duties, mining subsidence and sometimes the plain impecuniousness of the black sheep in the family took their toll and forced the break-up of all too many historic landed estates. In this elegiac book, a successor to Aurum’s Lost Victorian Britain, John Robinson surveys 20 of the most egregious losses, from Costessy in East Anglia to Lathom in Lancashire, and shows how the deer park, the home farm, the parterre and the cottage garden gave way to the power station, the motorway and the caravan park.
Author: Reece Garcia
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
ISBN: 1915352738
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Taking Back Control dispels the myth that an endemic of overwork, debt, the underfunding of public services, gross inequality and poor mental health are unavoidable through a provocative critique of work, money, politics, and the media.
Author: Alison Clarke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090539
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 751
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A radical new analysis of fundamental property principles which enables students to make sense of an exciting and fast-developing subject.
