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Rebel ramblers of the Kinder Trespass

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Ninety years on from the Kinder Mass Trespass, Ben Anderson speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about what this act of popular protest achieved in 1932, how it became mythologised as a key moment in the right-to-roam campaign, and how we should remember it today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:26.3

And remember, it's just between us.

0:30.3

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Reveal.

1:04.3

I'm Ellie Cawthorne. 90 years ago, on the 24th of April 1932, a few hundred ramblers headed up a peak in Derbyshire.

1:14.0

But this walk-up Kinder Scout that day was no normal hike. Rather, it was a trespass, a willful act of civil disobedience intended as a protest over restrictions to land access. In the nine decades since, the kinder

1:21.0

trespass has been mythologised in British radical history. But does it deserve its reputation?

1:29.5

I spoke to the Keel University historian Dr Ben Anderson, who specialises in the history of leisure, recreation and the environment

1:36.1

to get his opinion on the matter. Let's start with the basics, what exactly happened on the

1:42.1

Kinder trespass. So the Kinder Scout mass trespass was a protest about

1:46.7

access rights in which roughly about 400 people in April 1932 walked up this this sort of

1:54.4

gorge up to the top of Kinder Scout protesting their right to recreational access to what is really sort of England's highest

2:02.7

upland, moreland plateau. So there's loads of different accounts of that day. Some are more

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