{"id":16836,"date":"2022-08-16T11:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T09:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=214037"},"modified":"2022-08-17T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T10:37:07","slug":"countryside-campaigners-four-women-who-fought-for-our-green-spaces","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/countryside-campaigners-four-women-who-fought-for-our-green-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Countryside campaigners: four women who fought for our green spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Dr David Musgrove\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 16 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>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.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-214037-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/08\/Countrysidecampaigners-35f8d99.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/08\/Countrysidecampaigners-35f8d99.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/08\/Countrysidecampaigners-35f8d99.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Matthew Kelly is the author of <em>The Women Who Saved the English Countryside<\/em> (Yale University Press, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-women-who-saved-the-english-countryside\/9780300232240&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Women-Who-Saved-English-Countryside\/dp\/0300232241\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; 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