The Land is written by and for people who believe that the roots of justice, freedom, social security & democracy lie not so much in access to money, or to the ballot box, as in access to land and its resources.
The Land is one of the few UK magazines willing to publish long well-researched articles, but it also includes short news stories from around the UK and abroad, punchy editorials and unusual black and white illustrations.
We cover the following issues: international campaigns – peasant resistance, land reform in the UK and abroad, low-impact land-use, smallholding and farming, common land and global commons, land-use planning, housing issues including squatting and urban property issues, land tax & law, allotments, right-to-roam, corporate ownership, and environmental stewardship.
Back Issues
Articles featured in previous issues of The Land have included:
- ‘A Short History of Enclosure in Britain’. How our land was privatized over five centuries, by Simon Fairlie (issue 7)
- ‘Can Britain Feed Itself?’ By Simon Fairlie (as referred to in BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme) (issue 4)
- ‘Stockfree Britain’. Jenny Hall describes how a vegan countryside might be structured (issue 5)
- ‘The Plight of the Pig in the Nanny State’, by Simon Fairlie (issue 5)
- ‘Posture Politics & Colonial Fallout in Zimbabwe’, by Mark Brown (issue 6)
- ‘Land Reform for the Sea’: (Alastair McIntosh & David Thompson speak up for small-scale fisheries (issue 6)
- ‘Half of Scotland is Missing’, by Andy Wightman (issue 2)
- ‘Biofuel, Horsepower & Landtake’. Simon Fairlie compares the biofuel engine with the equine gut. (issue 2)
- ‘Wild Scots and Buffoon History’. Alastair McIntosh rebuffs claims that the Scottish Clearances never really happened (issue 1)
- ‘Forest Villages’. David Blair outlines new ideas for inhabiting & using uneconomic forestry land (issue 1)
Hard copies of most back issues are available for purchase - click on "subscribe" at the top of this page.
Older back issues can be downloaded free as (large) pdf files, normally one year after publication - click on "back issues".
Selected individual articles, including some of those listed above, are also available for free download in pdf format - click on "articles".
A note on illustrations
The Land magazine wishes to support contemporary black and white illustration. We try to give credit to all illustrators and are happy to pay a fee to living artists commensurate with our shoestring budget. Sometimes we do not manage to locate the artist. If you wish your work to be credited better or have any other problems, please contact the editors.
