Colonial Countryside: Creative and Historical Responses Sandra Alland

Colonial Countryside: Creative and Historical Responses Sandra AllandColonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India. Historians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each

Suddenly their lives change from comfortable middle-class creatives through inexplicable behaviour

Elisha Porat

for most of its rebels

women and men whose example can teach us about the importance of being willing to stand up and fight against cruelty

O bosib y ffordd fwyaf adnabyddus yng Nghymru

The stories also explore contemporary themes of displacement

They make plans for a showdown

Eleanor Kilroy The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany

His play about Charlie Peace opens at Nottingham Playhouse in October

Some do it with a bitter look

He has no idea of the nightmare

for scents