Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back Audiobook (Free)

‘A formidable, fearless and important book’ Robert Macfarlane

Who owns Britain?

Behind this basic question is situated this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to personal our property, and an motivating manifesto for how to start our countryside once again.

This book is a long time coming. Since 1086, in fact. For years and years, England’s elite have protected up how about Who Owns England?: HOW EXACTLY WE Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Consider It Back they got their hands on millions of acres of our property, by constructing wall space, burying studies and more recently, sheltering behind offshore shell companies. But using the dawn of digital mapping as well as the Freedom of Information Act, it’s becoming increasingly problematic for them to hide.

Trespassing through tightly-guarded country estates, ecologically ravaged grouse moors and bare Mayfair mansions, writer and activist Man Shrubsole has utilized these 21st century tools to uncover an abundance of never-before-seen information about the people who have our property, to create the most comprehensive map of land ownership in England which has ever been made public.

From secret army islands to tunnels deep beneath London, Shrubsole unearths truths concealed since the Domesday Book about who is really in charge of this country – at a time when Brexit is meant to be returning sovereignty towards the people. Melding history, politics and polemic, he vividly demonstrates how acquiring control of land ownership is paramount to tackling everything from the casing crisis to climate change – as well as halting the erosion of our very democracy.

It’s time to expose the reality about who owns Britain – and lastly take back our green and pleasant property.