Commons Stories
Commons Stories is a collection of stories from four upland common regions across England: Dartmoor, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and the Shropshire Hills.
You’ll find written and photographic portraits of people, short videos, audio clips, and reflections on events through the year, as well as reflections on some of the challenges of building sustainable futures for people and landscape in these special places.
The collection is put together by somewhere nowhere duo, writer Harriet Fraser and photographer Rob Fraser, with contributions from commoners using GoPro cameras to capture snippets of their day-to-day lives on the farm and in the hills.
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Exhibition: Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, Yorkshire
April 19 - September 8th, 2024
Poem: A Kind of Wonder
A poem from a collection created as part of the Commons Stories series, with Our Upland Commons: A Kind of Wonder reflects on upland commons across England.
Why commoners matter - a view from Ann Willcocks
Why do commons matter? What do commoners do? A long read touching on habitats, heritage, governance and future thinking, with views from commoner Ann Willcocks in Dartmoor.