The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

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Author and right-to-roam campaigner Nick Hayes trespassing on Basildon Park’s historic parklands in Berkshire. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users. The Book of Trespass is [Hayes's] first non-graphic book – though the text is punctuated by his marvellous illustations, linocuts that bring to mind the Erics, Gill and Ravilious – and in it, he weaves several centuries of English history together with the stories of gypsies, witches, ramblers, migrants and campaigners, as well as his own adventures. Transgression, which carries with it that pungent whiff of candle smoke and incense, that sense of religious damnation, is the reason Christians pray for the Lord to Forgive us our trespasses. Hayes uses each chapter to tell the stories of different forms of oppression and the struggles of those who have struggled and fought back.

The Book of Trespass : Crossing the Lines that Divide Us The Book of Trespass : Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

And there were nice mentions for how so many European countries go much further on rights of access to land without tipping into anarchy.Similarly, his decritption of Plto as a "proto communist" copies a common fallacy of those who have not turly grasped "The Republic" and Plato's views on land ownership which were ambiguous at best except regarding "philosopher guardians".

The Book of Trespass review – a leap over England Nick Hayes: The Book of Trespass review – a leap over England

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Segregation, which directs the mindset of race and gender, is a word whose Latin root means to be cast out of the flock, and which reinforces the prejudice that racial groups that can be distinguished by a line alone. Land became a “commodity alone”, “partitioned from the web of social ties” that truly gives it value. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use.

The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines That Divide Us

When The Book of Trespass is published later this month, he and Guy Shrubsole, the activist author of Who Owns England? This may not matter to his point (it is little more than a rhetorical flourish), but it immediately alerts anyone who knows anything about the law to the fact that where this book states and discusses the law, it is not necessarily to be trusted. To be honest there were a few things I didn’t like in the book; there are poor interpretations of history (Anne Askew didn’t die simply because she was a woman; Witchcraft prosecutions were not just an attack on women, for example).

Symbolic animals – badger, fox, hare, stag, pheasant and so on – head the chapters and populate the stories within them. I am nowhere brave enough to emulate his trespass – I am by nature deeply compliant, which is maybe one reason I admired Nick’s work so much.

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He takes care never to demonise the keepers and estate workers he confronts on his wall-breaching escapades. It was more a case of wanting to support my feeling intellectually that it’s the wall that is the crime, not the climbing of it,” he says. His one attempt at trying to enter a dialogue with a seriously rich landowner to try to see another point of view fails - but are we as much to blame for our complicit obedience to sign and fence? Splendidly eloquent nature-writing evokes the woodlands, the wildlife, the landscapes and ecologies of the countryside that the post-Norman millennium of property law – or, if you prefer, “violence and theft” – has shaped, for good or ill. We talk of access equally in terms of the physical, with disability rights and the right to roam, and in the abstract realm, in terms of education, health and opportunity.This word was the French version of the Latin rapio, which leads us to the word rape, where our understanding of sexual politics is structured through metaphors of personal space and acceptable boundaries. Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for providing a review copy in exchange for honest feedback. I was surprised that the English Civil Wars didn’t feature more prominently, a couple of references to the Diggers aside. Many of our liberties and the restrictions on them are expressed in terms of land, parameters and property, so much so that it is hard to tell which is a metaphor for the other.