Our Isles is a project founded by Angus D. Birditt & Lilly Hedley that
explores and celebrates the lives and landscape of the British countryside.
Our Isles is a project founded by Angus D. Birditt & Lilly Hedley that
explores and celebrates the lives and landscape of the British countryside.
Our Isles is a project founded by Angus D. Birditt & Lilly Hedley that
explores and celebrates the lives and landscape of the British countryside.
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Our Isles is a project celebrating and preserving the rural life of the British Isles, exploring its food & drink, landscape, nature, art, craft, heritage and community.
Our Isles is a project celebrating and preserving the rural life of the British Isles, exploring its food & drink, landscape, nature, art, craft, heritage and community.
Our Isles is a project celebrating and preserving the rural life of the British Isles, exploring its food & drink, landscape, nature, art, craft, heritage and community.
A Sense of Food & Place
A Sense of Food & Place
The Making of Baron Bigod
Angus D. Birditt
Isles of Scilly
Discover Megan Gallacher, a photographer from Norfolk, who contributes her photography collection called 'En Noer' to Stories within Our Isles evoking the life and culture on the Isles of Scilly.
Kingston upon Hull
Explore Studio Kettle's designs in their contribution to Stories within Our Isles that promotes a deeper attachment to our belongings.
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Seven Sisters
Shropshire
Angus D. Birditt visits Appleby's cheesemakers to see how they make their award-winning Cheshire.
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Suffolk
Explore the article by Tanmay Saxena, designer & filmmaker, who designs sustainable, handmade clothes. 'Darker than' is Tanmay's collection of handmade clothes inspired by his response to the changing landscape and light of Seven Sisters in East Sussex.
Jess Wheeler, designer and ceramist, on where in the British Isles she gets the inspiration.
Powys
Lottie Hampson series entitled 'Still Here' traces her family history to the River Usk in Wales.
Peak District
Explore Joe Winstanley's Skai, a series of prints inspired by the landscape of the Peak District.
Cumbria
Explore Grania Howard's series of photography called Cob Culture. Taken during her travels across the British Isles, Grania captures the unique connection between travellers and their horses.
Powys
Honest agriculture
From his journey within the Dee Valley, Jac Williams ventures across fields and farms talking to and capturing the lives of Welsh farmers.
We often marvel at it's appearance, live and breathe on it, make homes and feed from it. But do we truly understand the lie of the land? The following words extracted from longer poems and accompanying photography attempt to capture the immense beauty, fragility and mysteriousness of our Isles.
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Food & Drink
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FOOD & DRINK
Read the Q&A with the head miller, Andrew Wilkinson at Gilchesters Organics.
FOOD & DRINK
Read the following article on how the Scottish millers are working with heritage grains.
FOOD & DRINK
The article on James Ferguson and Alethea Palmer from the Kinneuchar Inn in Fife.
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Key benefits of supporting small scale food systems for a more sustainable future.
FOOD & DRINK
Photographer and writer Angus D. Birditt has been visiting and documenting dairies all over the British Isles, looking at the food, people and landscapes dedicated to artisan and farmhouse cheeses. From Lincolnshire Poacher to Stichelton, Britain's own Brie in the form of Baron Bigod from Suffolk, to Brefu Bach sheep's milk cheese from Snowdonia and Appleby's Cheshire cheese from the heart of rural Shropshire, this is a unique journey through photos, essays and recipes, revealing the joys and challenges of a life in cheesemaking.
'I’d happily eat this book – with a spoonful of chutney.' – Gill Meller
Farming
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FARMING
Read the following article and photography that interviews Navaratnam Partheeban, a farm vet who is helping to progress the industry and explains his love for farming.
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FARMING
The following series highlights and celebrates Pasture for Life Certified businesses that work closely with nature and work towards regenerating the ecosystem in which they farm.
An article that sheds light on how important it is to support our British farmers and to protect our food standards in the British Isles from lower standard imports.
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FARMING
The following article was published for the Sustainable Food Trust by Angus D. Birditt, highlighting the importance of localised butcher and abattoirs in the supply chain.
Nature & Landscape
NATURE & LANDSCAPE
Thirty poems and illustrated prints celebrating the trades and traditions of rural life.
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NATURE & LANDSCAPE
To research for the Our Isles book, Angus visited sailors off the North Norfolk coast.
NATURE & LANDSCAPE
Explore the colourful life of the flower grower in the Cambridgeshire Fens of East Anglia.
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NATURE & LANDSCAPE
NATURE & LANDSCAPE
Explore the following 'Idylls of the Field', an exhibition by artist duo Forest + Found with an essay written by Angus D. Birditt.
The origins of the rural idyll are as rich as they are abstract. From politicians to peasants, farmers and artists, this collective image of the rural idyll has been wielded throughout time as an instrument to conjure power, hope, beauty and loss – sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. As illustrated when Poet John Clare wrote of his rural idyll being lost before his eyes – and with it his access to roam – in the wake of the Enclosure Acts.