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
FOOD & DRINK
The Rise of Cheese Tourism looks at the ever-increasing trend of cheesemakers and cheesemongers becoming the destination for many tourists. Angus D. Birditt explores the subject as well as suggesting a few must-visit cheese destinations in the UK.
FOOD & DRINK
Food and farming are complex industries, explore its true diversity across the UK.
FOOD & DRINK
Discover the food and farming on the remote island off Wales, a place of pilgrimage.
FOOD & DRINK
The article on James Ferguson and Alethea Palmer from the Kinneuchar Inn in Fife.
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FOOD & DRINK
Read the Q&A with the head miller, Andrew Wilkinson at Gilchesters Organics.
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FOOD & DRINK
Read the following article & photography, where he talks to Navaratnam Partheeban, a farm vet and farming enthusiast, who is helping to progress the industry.
FOOD & DRINK
This article explores the inspiring, recent resurgence of a past great British territorial cheese, Wensleydale, one made with raw milk and made using the same traditional 'Dales' recipe.
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An article highlighting the on-going support of British farmhouse cheese, raising the awareness of the benefits of supporting small-scale producers.
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The Story of Fife is a collaborative narration between Our Isles and Pasture for Life, exploring and celebrating the restorative work by those farmers working on the ground.