Corinne Fowler is Professor of Colonialism and Heritage in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. Between 2018 and 2022, Fowler directed a child-led history and writing project called 'Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted'. She also co-authored the 2020 National Trust report on its country houses' historical links to the British Empire. She is author of Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections (Peepal Tree Press, 2020) and a book of walks called Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain (Penguin, 2024).