Watch Nico's short history presentation on drainage, resistance and rewilding movements in the East Anglia fenland, UK.
This brief Massolit-style presentation focuses on the fascinating economic, natural and political history of the Fenlands in East Anglia. It is a story of resistance to the destruction of wetlands and livelihoods, from Hereward the Wake of 1060 to the Isle of Axholme Mowbray Accord of 1305 to the Powtes Complaynte of 1611, the Bedford Level Corporation of 1663, the Enclosure Act of 1795, and the steam-powered drainages of the 1800s and 1900s, to the floods, erosion and siltation of the 2000s.