Guy Shrubsole

Shrubsole was born in Newbury, Berkshire,{{cite news|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole review – why this land isn't your land|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/28/who-owns-england-guy-shrubsole-review-land-ownership|date=28 April 2019|newspaper=The Observer|first=Tim|last=Adams}} and attended St Bartholomew's School.{{cite web |title =Key Stage 5 Awards Evening|publisher =St Bartholomew's School|access-date=11 August 2022|url =https://www.stbarts.co.uk/key-stage-5-awards-evening-3/}}

Shrubsole researched who owns the land in England for his first book.{{cite news|access-date=2021-04-07|title=Who Owns England? by Guy Shrubsole review – our darkest secret|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/10/who-owns-england-by-guy-shrubsole-review-how-we-lost-our-green-and-pleasant-land|date=10 May 2019|newspaper=The Guardian|first=PD |last=Smith}}

In August 2020, Shrubsole and Nick Hayes launched a campaign on freedom to roam in England, called Right to Roam.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-07|title=Keep On Roaming|url=https://www.ramblers.org.uk/news/latest-news/2020/august/keep-on-roaming.aspx|website=The Ramblers}} In July 2021, Shrubsole and Hayes collaborated with Landscapes of Freedom and David Bangs to organise a mass trespass on the Sussex Downs to raise awareness of the failings of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, which Shrubsole criticises for its limitations.{{Cite web|title=Hundreds attend mass trespass for the right to roam|url=https://www.theargus.co.uk/magazine/sussex_walks/east_sussex_walks/19467688.mass-trespass-attended-300-brighton-downs/|first=Christian |last=Fuller|date=26 July 2021|access-date=2021-07-26|website=The Argus (Brighton)|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=How the trespass movement is battling for a kinder, more inclusive Britain|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/environment/2021/07/how-trespass-movement-battling-kinder-more-inclusive-britain|access-date=2021-07-30|website=New Statesman|first=India|last=Bourke|date=29 July 2021|language=en}}

He used to work as Policy and Campaigns Coordinator at Rewilding Britain.{{cite web |title=Our team |url=https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are-and-how-were-run/our-team |website=Rewilding Britain |access-date=10 January 2022 |language=en}}

Shrubsole's Lost Rainforests of Britain campaign attempts to find, map, photograph, and restore the Atlantic Oakwood forests, woodlands variously referred to in Britain as Upland Oakwoods, Atlantic Oakwoods, Western Oakwoods, Temperate Rainforest, and Caledonian Forest, and colloquially as "Celtic Rainforests".{{cite news |last1=Shrubsole |first1=Guy |author1-link=Guy Shrubsole |title=Life finds a way: in search of England's lost, forgotten rainforests |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/29/life-finds-a-way-in-search-of-englands-lost-forgotten-rainforests |access-date=10 January 2022 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=29 April 2021 |language=en}} His book on the subject was shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Wild Fell Wins Top Literary Prize for Nature Writing |url=http://www.richardjefferiessociety.org/2023/05/wild-fell-wins-top-literary-prize-for.html |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=Richard Jefferies Society |language=en-GB}} and longlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation.{{Cite web |title=The Lost Rainforests of Britain |url=https://wainwrightprize.com/nominee/the-lost-rainforests-of-britain/ |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=Wainwright Prize |language=en-GB}}

In his book The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? (2024), Shrubsole challenges deeply ingrained narratives about land ownership and environmental stewardship in England.

• {{Cite book |last=Shrubsole |first=Guy |author-mask=2 |title=Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back |year=2019 |publisher=William Collins |isbn=9780008321673}}{{cite web |access-date=2021-04-07 |title=Who owns England? History of England's land ownership and how much is privately owned today |url=https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today/ |first=Guy |last=Shrubsole |website=Countryfile magazine}}{{cite magazine |access-date=2021-04-07 |title=So Who Does Own England? |url=https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/so-who-does-own-england |magazine=The Land Magazine |issue=25 |first=Mike |last=Hannis}}
• {{Cite book |last=Shrubsole |first=Guy |author-mask=2 |title=The Lost Rainforests of Britain |year=2022 |publisher=William Collins |isbn=9780008527990}}{{Cite web |title=The Lost Rainforests of Britain |url=https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/the-lost-rainforests-of-britain-guy-shrubsole |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=HarperCollins Publishers UK |language=en}}
• {{Cite book |last=Shrubsole |first=Guy |author-mask=2 |title=The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? |year=2024 |publisher=HarperCollins |location=London |isbn=9780008651770}}{{Cite web |last=Bayley |first=Sian |title=William Collins lands third book from Shrubsole |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/william-collins-lands-third-book-from-shrubsole|date=21 April 2023 |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=The Bookseller |language=En}}

• Land ownership in the United Kingdom
• Return of Owners of Land, 1873

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• [https://whoownsengland.org Official Who Owns England? blog] by Shrubsole and Anna Powell-Smith

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