The British countryside is integral to our national identity and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. In Our Island Stories, Corinne Fowler takes the reader – and often a companion – on ten country walks, connecting local histories and landscapes to global history and telling the stories of colonial rule often hidden behind the pastoral idylls of the British countryside.

Our Island Stories explores the ways that the British Empire transformed rural lives for better and for worse, offering opportunity but also directly contributing to land enclosure, land clearances and dispossession. Join us as we take a walk through the British countryside and the history of our small island.