Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside was being invented through the imaginative displacement of agricultural

From its earliest origins to the present day, this award-winning, beautifully written book describes the endlessly changing character of Britain's countryside.

THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE tells the many-layered story of the British landscape. Oliver Rackham shows, with passion and humour, how to read our

Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how three cultures interacted with their changing environment.

This engaging history of rural England and Wales during the twentieth century looks at the role of the countryside as both a place of work and of leisure and lo