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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Sheffield, that was a super fun evening!

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Pockets For Women @pocketswomenuk.bsky.social · 1d

Was really happy to see @threeacresacow.bsky.social at the Crucible this evening. Some things you take for granted as being just the way things are, but seeing the history of enclosure, shows how recently we had common rights to land. Also a great crowd and some lovely communal singing 😁

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Lucy Wheeler @lucywheeler.bsky.social · 2d

@threeacresacow.bsky.social thanks for a great evening. Fully re-energised

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Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social · 1d

Just back from seeing @threeacresacow.bsky.social at the Crucible in Sheffield. Honestly a lovely, educational and empowering show. See it if you can!

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks 🙏

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 5d

For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest wool, there noble men, gentlemen, and certain Abbots too leave no ground for tillage: they inclose all into pastures, they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheephouse.

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 5d

"Your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I heard say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities."

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 5d

Sheep and the lucrative wool trade was the driving force behind people being forced from their land during medieval times in Britain.

Thomas More's Utopia has a few things to say about this in 1516...

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 6d

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...

'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks! 🐮

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Mark French @medwinfrench.bsky.social · 20d

We loved 'Three Acres And A Cow' at the Wesley Church in Chester last Thursday. Thank you @threeacresacow.bsky.social and @cynefinmusic.bsky.social for a fantastic evening 👏

The cast of 'Three Acres And A Cow' starting the final song in the show, with the completed 'Washing Line of History' and the beautiful arched stained glass window of the Wesley Church, Chester behind. them

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 21d

Lovely time in Liverpool last night! Thanks so much to Ullet Road Church, Squash Liverpool, all our volunteers, and @cynefinmusic.bsky.social for bringing powerful Welsh songs to the show.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · Sep 11

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester, being jacked up on stilts to the new street level during redevelopment. It definitely looks like it's about to waddle out of the picture.

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · Sep 11

Congratulations Guy!

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Sep 10

Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing!

This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England…

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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · Sep 10

The WINNER of the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing...

The Lie of the Land, @guyshrubsole.bsky.social (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social)

#WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect

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Maria Dunn Music @mariadunnmusic.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you, @threeacresacow.bsky.social ! 1 of my fav songs of the late Alistair Hulett re Mary Barbour/ #Glasgow #Women #rent strike, 1915. I was honoured to meet, trade albums w Alistair ~20 yrs ago in Glasgow when we both played at a political song workshop

(1915*) Mrs Barbours’ Army by Alistair Hulett

If I could marry a song it would probably be this one. Alistair Hulett on fine form writing about Mary Barbour and the Glasgow Women’s rent strike at the start of the 1914-1918 war. Mrs Barbo…

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Maria Dunn Music @mariadunnmusic.bsky.social · Aug 29

Fascinating resource of songs about land rights, mostly in the UK, but also in Ireland and North America (note Willie Dunn's Ballad of Crowfoot included here). Thank you, @threeacresacow.bsky.social !

Songs

↩ back to resources *means song written at a later date. Some dates are approximate to aid navigation. Still to add – Baa baa black sheep

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · Aug 25

Some succint and prudent thoughts on the current state of food and farming in the UK... covers inheritance, supermarkets, NFU, Brexit, taxation, meat consumption and more

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain

The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis

www.theguardian.com

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · Aug 22

A superb article on community ownership of renewables and the wider land justice perspective -

"Community energy generates 100x more wealth than corporate counterparts. Energy infrastructure, like political power needs to be radically decentralised."

substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Pylon, the Turbine and the Black Black Blade

The Scottish renewables revolution feeds into a dysfunctional, even dystopian UK energy system. The crisis in the Highlands and Islands has echoes of age-old issues of power, poverty and democracy.

substack.com

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our Oswestry show is on Sunday 21st September
www.tickettailor.com/events/modif...
It will be a-moo-sing 🐮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our Wrexham show is on Saturday 20th September
www.tickettailor.com/events/modif...
It will be a-moo-sing 🐮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our Liverpool show is on Friday 19th September
www.tickettailor.com/events/modif...
It will be a-moo-sing 🐮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our Chester show is on Thursday 18th September
www.tickettailor.com/events/modif...
It will be a-moo-sing 🐮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Cheeky four date tour next month along northern part of English/Welsh border with the brilliant Owen Shiers from Gafael Tir and @cynefinmusic.bsky.social.

Our shows will be a-moo-sing 🐮 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Last few tickets going soon for our biggest ever show to 950 people in Sheffield on 9th October.

www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/three...

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