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Three Acres And A Cow | A History Of Land Rights And Protest In Folk Song And Story

“History is the fundamental source of human memory. It affects everything in terms of attitudes, values and political decisions.”
Professor Tom Devine – University Of Edinburgh

“The first step in resistance is a history lesson – it’s not a lesson written for us, but one we write ourselves.”
Professor Simon Critchley – The New School, New York

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‘Three Acres And A Cow’ connects the Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with current issues of fracking and the housing crisis via the Enclosures, English Civil War, Irish Land League and Industrial Revolution, drawing a compelling narrative through the radical people’s history of Britain in folk song, stories and poems.

Part TED talk, part history lecture, part folk club sing-a-long, part poetry slam, part storytelling session… Come and share in these tales as they have been shared for generations.

wood engraving by Clare Leighton, courtesy of the artist’s estate

“He who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future.”
George Orwell