The New English Landscape

Horsey Island, Essex, March 2013 by Jason Orton In 2010, ARTEVENTS published a book of essays and poems under the title, ‘Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its Meanings’, edited by Gareth Evans & Di Robson.

PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY, 19 MARCH 2025 This month Little Toller Books publish a collection of essays and writings of mine from the past two decades, now gathered together for the first time.

Balcony horticulture, 2023 The social and political after-effects of the catastrophe of the First World War included recognising that many who had sacrificed their lives had done so with little if any stake in the nation’s future.

Who is Iain Sinclair, and where did he come from?

The much-expanded new edition of Modern Hospice Design: the architecture of palliative and social care, will be published on 29 September 2023.

St Peter-on-the-Wall, 7th century chapel at Bradwell Two buildings dominate the flat, estuarine landscape of the Dengie Peninsula in Essex where the River Blackwater meets the sea: the austere 7th century chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, and the decommissi…

This month marks the tenth anniversary of The New English Landscape blog, now running to seventy-five short essays, reviews and commentary, or 70,000 words.

In 1973 I was involved in an oral history project in Hackney organised under the title, ‘A People’s Autobiography of Hackney’.

Toby Jones in ‘Detectorists’ Just before Christmas, Historic England posted a blog, A Brief History of Community Centres in England, illustrated by contemporary colour photographs showing modest and occasionally eccentric buildings scattered across the co…

A favourite novel of the late, and much-loved writer and anarchist, Colin Ward, was Huckleberry Finn.