Walk good: in Britain’s colonial countryside

As the National Trust reports, a significant part of the wealth and beauty of the British countryside was secured by the exploitation and plunder of people in the colonies. In the 1960s, when Louise Bennett spoke of mass migration to the Motherland as colonising in reverse, she could not have foreseen that black and brown people would not simply confine themselves to the industrial concrete conurbations. In collaboration with the British Library on 24 September, WritersMosaic and Colin Grant brought together Corinne Fowler, Roger Robinson, Jonny Pitts, Hannah Lowe, John Siddique and Angeline Morrison to reflect on how and why we’re everywhere now, flocking to green and pleasant lands that once seemed out of bounds.