Patrick Galbraith takes us on an extraordinary tour of rural Britain, from the Hebrides to Devon, and from Anglo-Saxon England to the present day. To understand fully our deep connection with the land, he meets farmers, Irish Travellers, politicians, salmon poachers, and the nation’s most-hated landowners, as well as activists calling for a total abolition of the right to own land.
Uncommon Ground argues that what matters is not greater access but how we engage with the land and demands that landowners give us more opportunities to do so, while also giving endangered wildlife the right to tranquillity.
In conversation with Catherine Larner
