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Website for the AHRC-funded Land Lines Nature Writing project, Tipping Points and Tracks, Traces & Trails

Land Lines Book Launch!

Cover Art by artist Melanie Rose

We are delighted to announce the publication of Modern British Nature Writing 1789–2020: Land Lines, by the Land Lines research team. Find out more, including how to purchase a copy, here!

The Mysterious Bird in the Moonlight by Steve Smallman Takes Flight!

We are really excited to launch this beautiful book – click on the image to find out more!

Click here to find out more!

LATEST: An Inescapable Wildness – Philip Strange

Grey seals swimming in Brixham Harbour

Click here to see the latest blog post, “An Inescapable Wildness by Philip Strange.

Land Lines Blog

Owl by Katie Marland

See the latest contributions to the Land Lines blog from our guest writers

Slow Conversations: Farming, Environment, Landscape

Photo by Rob Fraser @ somewhere-nowhere

Click here to browse a series of “slow conversations” between farmers, environmentalists and creatives as part of the Tipping Points project!

Gifts of Gravity and Light

Click here to read about Gifts of Gravity and Light

Nature Revealed: Audio Exhibition

Image: Pixabay

Click here for our November 2020 audio and soundscape showcase, and links to the individual works!

Nightjar Nights: 8th-17 June 2020

Great Eared-Nightjar by Nigel Voaden

Click here for the full list of works for our June series, Nightjar Nights!

Lockdown Nature Writing Workshop

‘Edge’ by Rebecca Lowe

Click here for our newest website series – reflections on our summer nature writing workshop with Caring Together!

David de la Haye – Hidden Sounds

Click here to listen to our final soundscape by David de la Haye and featuring Jez Lowe

Cosmo Sheldrake – Subterranea

Photo by Cosmo Sheldrake

Our fourth soundscape commission by Cosmo Sheldrake – listen here!

Scott McLaughlin – October Nocturns

Photo by Scott McLaughlin

Our third soundscape – Scott McLaughlin’s ‘October Nocturns’ – is live here

Architects of Rosslyn – Natural Rites

Photo by Gav Weaver

Click here to listen to the first in our exclusive soundscape works by the Architects of Rosslyn

Nikki Sheth – Nocturnal Insights

Photo by Nikki Sheth

Our latest exclusive soundscape by artist and composer Nikki Sheth

EXHIBITION: Online Nature Writing and Art

Photo by Rob Fraser

We are delighted to share a specially-curated set of online exhibitions, based on our winter digital workshops at Ennerdale, Stirley Farm and Castle Howard! Find them here.

Online Nature Writing and Art Workshops

Image: Poem by Jessica Wortley

Missed out on our live workshops earlier this year? Now’s your chance to have a go! Access all the resources and materials here for all three locations to inspire your own writing or artwork!

About Land Lines

This is the website for Land Lines, a research project that explored British nature writing from the late eighteenth century to the present. The project, running between 2017 and 2019, was a collaboration between researchers from the Universities of Leeds, Sussex and St Andrews, and involved various public events, including a museum exhibition, public talks, schools and a family fun day. This website acts as an information hub for past activities relating to the project, for current events organised as part of its two follow on projects, Tracks, Traces and Trails and Tipping Points, the latter a collaboration with the University of Bristol. It also hosts the popular Land Lines blog. Land Lines and its follow on projects are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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“Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us.”

Robert Macfarlane

Explore our archive for more about the Land Lines project and our past events, like the UK’s favourite nature book poll!

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