In her most recent book, Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain, historian Corinne Fowler designs and embarks on ten walks through the idyllic British countryside, accompanied by fellow writers, artists and scholars to reveal its forgotten links to transatlantic slavery and colonialism and their impact on the landscape and rural labourers.

In conversation with historian Philippa Hellawell, Fowler will talk about her longstanding interest in the entanglement between rural landscapes and colonialism, walking as a methodology to piece together hidden histories and the importance of this difficult process of rediscovery to deepen our relationship to the countryside.