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Colin Ward

Colin Ward is the chronicler of popular and unofficial uses of the landscape. His many books cover New Towns, holiday camps, tenant control of housing, plotlands and many examples of ‘anarchy in action’. His latest book is Cotters and Squatters – housing’s hidden history (£9.99 from Five Leaves Books, PO Box 81, Nottingham NG5 4ER).

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The worldwide one-night house

In “Cotters and Squatters – housing’s hidden history”, a veteran anarchist, writer, and educator explores the story of squatter settlements in England and Wales. From our cave-dwelling recent ancestors to the Diggers and the industrial revolution, from 20th mass squatting to modern claims that ‘The Land is Ours’, does the one-night house hold a key to the crisis in rural settlement?