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.

 
 

Exhibition: Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, Yorkshire

April 19 - September 8th, 2024

 
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Izzy Bell

Izzy is a young agricultural student who helps commoner John Heighway on his farm in Shropshire, learning about livestock, commoning and farm business. Here’s a short introduction to her, on a day when she’s tending ewes and young lambs in the fields below Clee Liberty Common.

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