The English Countryside Doesn’t Exist

Created
Thu, 06/11/2025 - 22:48
Updated
Thu, 06/11/2025 - 22:48

England is a constructed space — and the English countryside in particular is an ideologically constructed space. Right-wing concepts of the English countryside, informed by historical, cultural, ethnic, and class-based accounts, offer exclusionary representations of England. This is nothing new. The sense of a ‘timeless and forever England’ has often been invoked and weaponised by […]