Landscape
Labour email reveals panic as London mayoral ‘closer than we thought’
Plea for doorknockers betrays fears about outcome
‘Red Tory’ Labour appears to be worried about the outcome of today’s London mayoral election. The party has sent out an email to members in London asking them to come out and knock on doors to get voters out, because ‘it’s closer than we thought’ – close enough that ‘the number of people who volunteer could decide who wins’:
The emails have even been sent to non-members who left the party years ago.
The email doesn’t say which party Labour thinks is running it close. With the election now run on a first-past-the-post basis, unless there has been a huge surge for another party, Londoners have been left with an choice between a racist, pro-genocide, pro-austerity party and another racist, pro-genocide, pro-austerity party – and many who might usually have held their nose to vote Labour may simply be staying home to follow Keir Starmer’s example by abstaining.
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People's Landscapes: Living in Landscapes
A roundtable discussion explore landscape as a space for living, considering the pressures on land from population growth and discussing questions of preservation vs. development. People's Landscapes: Beyond the Green and Pleasant Land is a lecture series convened by the University of Oxford's National Trust Partnership, which brings together experts and commentators from a range of institutions, professions and academic disciplines to explore people's engagement with and impact upon land and landscape in the past, present and future. The National Trust cares for 248,000 hectares of open space across England, Wales and Northern Ireland; landscapes which hold the voices and heritage of millions of people and track the dramatic social changes that occurred across our nations' past. In the year when Manchester remembers the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, the National Trust's 2019 People’s Landscapes programme is drawing out the stories of the places where people joined to challenge the social order and where they demonstrated the power of a group of people standing together in a shared place. Throughout this year the National Trust is asking people to look again, to see beyond the green and pleasant land, and to find the radical histories that lie, often hidden, beneath their feet. At the third event in the series, Living in Landscapes, panellists explore landscape as a space for living, considering the pressures on land from population growth, discussing questions of preservation vs. development, and asking: who should decide how we live in landscape?
Speakers: Alice Purkiss | National Trust Partnership Lead | University of Oxford (Welcome)
Lucy Footer| National Public Programme Producer| National Trust (Introduction)
Dr Ingrid Samuel| Historic Environment Director | National Trust (Chair)
Crispin Truman | Chief Executive | Campaign to Protect Rural England
Dave Lomax | Senior Associate | Waugh Thistleton Architects
Professor Caitlin Desilvey | Associate Professor of Cultural Geography | University of Exeter
Dr David Howard | Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development | University of Oxford
For more information about the People’s Landscapes Lecture Series and the National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please visit: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership
People's Landscapes: Future Landscapes
A roundtable discussion consider future landscapes in the context of food, farming and conservation. People's Landscapes: Beyond the Green and Pleasant Land is a lecture series convened by the University of Oxford's National Trust Partnership, which brings together experts and commentators from a range of institutions, professions and academic disciplines to explore people's engagement with and impact upon land and landscape in the past, present and future. The National Trust cares for 248,000 hectares of open space across England, Wales and Northern Ireland; landscapes which hold the voices and heritage of millions of people and track the dramatic social changes that occurred across our nations' past. In the year when Manchester remembers the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, the National Trust's 2019 People’s Landscapes programme is drawing out the stories of the places where people joined to challenge the social order and where they demonstrated the power of a group of people standing together in a shared place. Throughout this year the National Trust is asking people to look again, to see beyond the green and pleasant land, and to find the radical histories that lie, often hidden, beneath their feet. At the fourth and final event in the series, Future Landscapes, panellists consider future landscapes in the context of food, farming and conservation, with panellists considering what we may want vs. what we will need from our landscapes in a post-Brexit Britain and beyond.
Speakers:
Alice Purkiss | National Trust Partnership Lead | University of Oxford (Welcome)
Helen Antrobus | National Public Programme Curator | National Trust (Introduction)
Dr Anita Weatherby | Research Programme Manager | National Trust (Chair)
Sue Cornwell | Head of Public Benefit and Nature | National Trust
Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland | Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science | University of Oxford
Phil Jarvis | Environment Forum Chair | National Farmers' Union
Dr Prue Addison | Conservation Strategy Director | Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxford Wildlife Trust
For more information about the People’s Landscapes Lecture Series and the National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please visit: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership
People's Landscapes: Creative Landscapes
A roundtable discussion exploring the ways in which writers, artists and musicians have both responded to and created conceptions of 'place' throughout history. Thursday 16th May 2019. People's Landscapes: Beyond the Green and Pleasant Land is a lecture series convened by the University of Oxford's National Trust Partnership, which brings together experts and commentators from a range of institutions, professions and academic disciplines to explore people’s engagement with and impact upon land and landscape in the past, present and future.
The National Trust cares for 248,000 hectares of open space across England, Wales and Northern Ireland; landscapes which hold the voices and heritage of millions of people and track the dramatic social changes that occurred across our nations' past. In the year when Manchester remembers the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, the National Trust's 2019 People’s Landscapes programme is drawing out the stories of the places where people joined to challenge the social order and where they demonstrated the power of a group of people standing together in a shared place. Throughout this year the National Trust is asking people to look again, to see beyond the green and pleasant land, and to find the radical histories that lie, often hidden, beneath their feet.
At the second event in the series, Creative Landscapes, panellists explore the ways in which writers, artists and musicians have both responded to and created conceptions of 'place' throughout history, considering the role of taste, nostalgia and imaginary spaces in our understanding of landscape today.
Speakers:
Alice Purkiss, National Trust Partnership Lead, University of Oxford (Welcome)
Helen Antrobus, Contemporary Arts Programme Manager, National Trust (Introduction)
Grace Davies, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust (Chair)
Kate Stoddart, Independent Curator, Project Manager and Mentor
Dr Rosemary Shirley, Senior Lecturer Art Theory and Practice, Manchester Metropolitan University
Craig Oldham, Designer and Creative Consultant
Professor Fiona Stafford, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
For more information about the People’s Landscapes Lecture Series and the National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please visit: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership
People's Landscapes: Contested Landscapes
A roundtable discussion of the history of land access and ownership, exploring how this has both physically and politically shaped our land and our access to it. People's Landscapes: Beyond the Green and Pleasant Land is a lecture series convened by the University of Oxford’s National Trust Partnership, which brings together experts and commentators from a range of institutions, professions and academic disciplines to explore people’s engagement with and impact upon land and landscape in the past, present and future.
The National Trust cares for 248,000 hectares of open space across England, Wales and Northern Ireland; landscapes which hold the voices and heritage of millions of people and track the dramatic social changes that occurred across our nations' past. In the year when Manchester remembers the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, the National Trust’s 2019 People’s Landscapes programme is drawing out the stories of the places where people joined to challenge the social order and where they demonstrated the power of a group of people standing together in a shared place. Throughout this year the National Trust is asking people to look again, to see beyond the green and pleasant land, and to find the radical histories that lie, often hidden, beneath their feet.
At the first event in the series, Contested Landscapes, panelists discuss the history of land access and ownership, exploring how this has both physically and politically shaped our land and our access to it.
The Speakers:
Alice Purkiss National Trust Partnership Lead University of Oxford (Welcome)
Helen Antrobus National Public Programme Curator National Trust (Chair)
Dr Briony McDonagh Lecturer in Human Geography University of Hull
Helen Wright Visitor Experience Manager - Peak District National Trust
Dr Stephen Mileson Research Fellow University of Oxford
Kate Ashbrook Chair of Trustees Ramblers
For more information about the People’s Landscapes Lecture Series and the National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please visit: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership
Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust – keynote by Hilary McGrady, Director-General, National Trust
‘Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust’ is the keynote by McGrady, Director-General, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. Women and Power: Redressing the Balance was a 2-day conference, jointly convened by the National Trust and the University of Oxford, which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019 at St Hugh’s College in Oxford. The conference brought together professionals from across the academic and heritage sectors to reflect on programming around the 2018 centenary of the Representation of the People Act which granted some women the right to vote and to look to the future of researching and programming women’s histories.
The conference featured papers from a range of heritage, cultural and academic institutions who marked the centenary anniversary. Many of the programmes, exhibitions and events that responded to the centenary not only explored the stories of 100 years ago but openly questioned the representation of women’s lives in the histories inherited by curators and researchers, and experienced in public life, today.
‘Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust’ is the keynote by McGrady, Director-General, National Trust.
Speakers:
Hilary McGrady, Director-General, National Trust
For more information about the Women and Power conference and the National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please visit:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership
Women and Power: Redressing the Balance – keynote by Annie Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust
'Women and Power: Redressing the Balance' is the opening keynote by Anne Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. Women and Power: Redressing the Balance was a 2-day conference, jointly convened by the National Trust and the University of Oxford, which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019 at St Hugh's College in Oxford. The conference brought together professionals from across the academic and heritage sectors to reflect on programming around the 2018 centenary of the Representation of the People Act which granted some women the right to vote and to look to the future of researching and programming women's histories.
The conference featured papers from a range of heritage, cultural and academic institutions who marked the centenary anniversary. Many of the programmes, exhibitions and events that responded to the centenary not only explored the stories of 100 years ago but openly questioned the representation of women’s lives in the histories inherited by curators and researchers, and experienced in public life, today.
'Women and Power: Redressing the Balance' is the opening keynote by Anne Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust.
Speakers:
Alice Purkiss, National Trust Partnership Lead, University of Oxford (Welcome)
Annie Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust
For more information about the Women and Power conference and the National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please visit:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership