Countryside campaigners: four women who fought for our green spaces
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🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Professor Matthew Kelly tells David Musgrove the story of four women who helped to protect and preserve the English countryside from the 1870s through to the 1970s, battling for public access to natural spaces.
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| 2:07.4 | Matthew Kelly, the women who saved the English countryside. The book champions some of the figures |
| 2:13.6 | who campaign to protect our natural beauty spots over their last 150 years. And David Musgrove |
| 2:20.4 | spoke to Matthew to find out more. Your new book is entitled The Women Who Saved the English |
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