@vch-home.bsky.social thanks for your amazing work. We are about to publish blog and social posts about your books and are wondering if we can illustrate them using this image from www.history.ac.uk/research/vic...

🐮 our shows are a-moo-sing! threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/

First peeks of our washing line of history and songbook from the amazing 'Radical Rural' exhibition at @themerl.bsky.social. There is lots of great udder stuff going on there too... check out: merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rad... Thanks to @olliedouglas.bsky.social for his excellent work on this.

Stark new figures from Andy Wightman: concentration of land ownership in Scotland is getting worse, not better. And the new Land Reform Bill will do little to change this.

Truly honoured to be part of this excellent exhibition which you should all get along too!

It collates much of the really vital and interesting work being done on rural and land rights, history and life at the moment, including: @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Nick Hayes, the amazing Leah Gordon, @threeacresacow.bsky.social the indefatigable Kate Ashbrook and @openspacessociety.bsky.social

🐄 we are heading south 🎟️ threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/ 🚀 join us, it will be a-moo-sing! 🎵

Preparing for the free 'Tools for being Herd' seminar and hoping to make a word cloud from all the 'how people found out about Three Acres And A Cow' data in the shape of a cow... it is thanks to wordart.com Zoom seminar is 7pm on Tuesday 10th February, book here - forms.gle/oYAbjF5QKYwF...

Tools for being herd - this is how we moo things! We are hosting a free online zoom seminar to share the tools and techniques we've found work for us to organise our tours. 7pm on Tuesday 10th February - register here forms.gle/oYAbjF5QKYwF...

@mhtaylor.bsky.social just listened to your podcast interview with William & Anita. We'd like to fix George Wilson Bridges wikipedia which omits his time spent terrorising enslaved Africans - is this something you might help us with? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_... www.instagram.com/empirepoduk/

In Godalming, the smell is “horrendous”, with floods backing up into drains every time it rains. But the stench surrounding Thames Water hangs like a cloud over their accounts as well, where the company is drowning in £17.6bn of debt: https://goodlaw.social/wlua

Water privatisation has failed South East Water spent more on shareholder dividends than on infrastructure Now the taps aren't working in Kent and Sussex Emma Reynolds and Ofwat, bring South East Water into public ownership immediately Sign the petition 👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/sout...

This should be posted under every post Farage sends and quoted at him in every interview he gives - forever.

We’ve known this for ages… glad everyone else is finally catching up though - www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

🐄 we are heading north 🎟️ threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/ 🚀 join us, it will be a-moo-sing! 🎵

These are not people serving sentences. They are people awaiting trial. And yet the conditions they describe – prolonged pre-trial detention, restrictions on communication, isolation – are indistinguishable from punishment. www.thenational.scot/news/2570995...

The problem isn’t just Shabana Mahmood. It’s the whole department she represents. open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own rivers, woods and moors, have a read of @tomchance.bsky.social's excellent letter here: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve... And here's a piece I wrote on this: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

2/ Big thanks to @simonforstroud.bsky.social for tabling amendments 107 and 108 & to the 9 MPs who have so far added their support! These would extend the Community Right to Buy to environmental assets, provided the land isn't earmarked for development: publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Let communities own rivers, woods & moors! Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way. We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/

Let communities own rivers, woods and moors! Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws. See our template letter here - www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... "Approaching Hartington via Sheen, Derbyshire" by Caff, released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.

Housing is a right not a market for profiteering and exploitation Join a tenants union: londonrentersunion.org www.livingrent.org sheffieldtu.org.uk tenantsunion.org.uk acorntheunion.org.uk Victorian terraced housing photo by Ruth Sharville / CC BY-SA 2.0 / www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11141

Folk often ask me what I would do by way of land reform legislation. Have a read of this blog to find out. It seems pointless to do much further detailed work since there is so little appetite for such measures andywightman.scot/2023/12/land...

#OtD 1 Nov 1963 Black tenants began a rent strike in Harlem, NYC. By January, about 2000 tenants were withholding rent. The strike caused the city to create a rat eradication program, legalize rent strikes, and pass laws to improve housing conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7712...

3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own environmental assets, read my blog here: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

2/ If you have a Labour MP, please write to them using this template letter created by @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social - tell Ministers to strengthen the Community Right to Buy so that communities can own environmental assets like rivers, woods & peat bogs: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...

'Communities must have the right to own environmental assets' Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...

NEW: Whitehall bosses slammed for being trustees of a charity accused of facilitating "corporate capture" by arms companies, oil giants and privatisers: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... - by me

As if big business didn’t have enough power in Whitehall, they need charitable help to get more. Meet the charity that gives arms dealers & oil companies special access to government.   Great report @adamramsay.bsky.social and thks for the quote abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/whitehall-...

And kudos to @riveractionuk.bsky.social for bringing the complaint.

This’d be a canny move: raise the threshold at which inheritance tax applies to farmland from £1m to £5m (£10m for couples), ensuring it applies only to huge estates - but then remove the proposed discount (so IHT at 40%, not 20%) Would call the big landowners’ bluff news.sky.com/story/damage...

Thanks Sheffield, that was a super fun evening!

Was really happy to see @threeacresacow.bsky.social at the Crucible this evening. Some things you take for granted as being just the way things are, but seeing the history of enclosure, shows how recently we had common rights to land. Also a great crowd and some lovely communal singing 😁

@threeacresacow.bsky.social thanks for a great evening. Fully re-energised

Just back from seeing @threeacresacow.bsky.social at the Crucible in Sheffield. Honestly a lovely, educational and empowering show. See it if you can!

#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

Sheep and the lucrative wool trade was the driving force behind people being forced from their land during medieval times in Britain. Thomas More's Utopia has a few things to say about this in 1516... 1/3

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again... 'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

We loved 'Three Acres And A Cow' at the Wesley Church in Chester last Thursday. Thank you @threeacresacow.bsky.social and @cynefinmusic.bsky.social for a fantastic evening 👏

Lovely time in Liverpool last night! Thanks so much to Ullet Road Church, Squash Liverpool, all our volunteers, and @cynefinmusic.bsky.social for bringing powerful Welsh songs to the show.

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

Congratulations Guy!

Thank you, @threeacresacow.bsky.social ! 1 of my fav songs of the late Alistair Hulett re Mary Barbour/ #Glasgow #Women #rent strike, 1915. I was honoured to meet, trade albums w Alistair ~20 yrs ago in Glasgow when we both played at a political song workshop

Fascinating resource of songs about land rights, mostly in the UK, but also in Ireland and North America (note Willie Dunn's Ballad of Crowfoot included here). Thank you, @threeacresacow.bsky.social !

Some succint and prudent thoughts on the current state of food and farming in the UK... covers inheritance, supermarkets, NFU, Brexit, taxation, meat consumption and more www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A superb article on community ownership of renewables and the wider land justice perspective - "Community energy generates 100x more wealth than corporate counterparts. Energy infrastructure, like political power needs to be radically decentralised." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Cheeky four date tour next month along northern part of English/Welsh border with the brilliant Owen Shiers from Gafael Tir and @cynefinmusic.bsky.social. Our shows will be a-moo-sing 🐮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/

Last few tickets going soon for our biggest ever show to 950 people in Sheffield on 9th October. www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/three...

I’m just reading this too on holiday, 1/3 in I think it’s my favourite book of the year! A different way of seeing the world, beautiful writing as well as ideas