Colonial Countryside: Creative and Historical Responses: Creative and Historical Responses

This comissioned collection of short stories and poems, historical essays and art draws inspiration from National Trust properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India.

Colonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India.

Historians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each creative commission was based. The book ends with a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard, the Turner Prize shortlisted artist who has pioneered critical interventions into the supposed whiteness of the British countryside.

• | Author: Andre Bagoo, Jeremy Poynting, Corinne Fowler, Seni Seneviratne, Peter Kalu, Maria Thomas, Malachi McIntosh, Mahsuda Snaith, Hannah Lowe, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
• | Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jul 25, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781845235666
• | ISBN-10: 1845235665