In 2020, writer and academic Corinne Fowler co-authored a report investigating the colonial histories of National Trust properties. Colonial Countryside, co-edited by Corinne, is an anthology of creative work by ten global majority writers, accompanied by historical commentaries, exploring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories.

This event brings together Corinne Fowler, with Malachi McIntosh (writer and contributor to the book), former Birmingham Poet Laureate Casey Bailey (whose collection and play, Please Do Not Touch, explores the legacies of colonialism through historic collections) and historian Miranda Kaufmann (a contributor to the project and author of Heiresses, following the lives of nine heiresses and the role they played in the history of enslavement, including the legacy of Aston Hall).

The Colonial Countryside project was produced by Renaissance One and Peepal Tree Press and supported through funding by Arts Council England.

Chaired by Jonathan Davidson.