Richard White co-editor of “Breaking the Dead Silence” in conversation with historian Professor Corinne Fowler be talking about her newly published investigation into Colonial Britain: “Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain.“

One’s attitude to taking a walk in the British countryside might well change once you have read “Our Island Stories”. Corinne Fowler accompanies a number of intriguing people on walks, who help her reveal the contested histories of Britain’s much loved and often romanticised countryside. How it has come about, who might have been responsible for making it emerge the way it has, and how we today may access some of it for our own enjoyment out and about on foot are all aspects she has carefully researched.