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.
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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.
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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.



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.
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.
Explore the photography series, Hastings Fisheries that was taken by Angus D. Birditt to promote the life and workings of the fisheries in Hastings, East Sussex.
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As I arrived in the early hours of the morning in Hastings, East Sussex, fishermen Steven and his crew were pulling their boat up the shingles, ending their long shift out in the British channel catching the evening fish. Each day, Steven and his brother venture out on their boat called 'Felicity', out into the waters surrounding the British Isles. He tells me that they are catching less and less these days. The fish they do catch is mainly skate, sole, plaice and cod, all of which are rather hard to come by. Steven fears for the longevity of his profession, not just for the next but his own generation.
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Come rain or shine, these men and women are out on the shorelines of East Sussex, from Hastings to Rye, soon to catch the fish of the day, and sometimes all the evening for that matter. Men like Steven here, who tells me he has been fishing for half a century since a wee boy, has seen his profession change considerably since when he first started.
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For millennia, fishermen have been coming and going from the Stade in Old Town Hastings, the largest and oldest beach-launched fleet in the country. Time and government quotas, Steven tells me, will determine how long his profession will last.
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