Corinne Fowler

Biography

Corinne Fowler is Professor of Colonialism and Heritage in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. She directed ‘Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted’ a child-led history and writing project guided by a team of historians. She has authored many academic books on history and literature, and her most recent book Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England’s Colonial Connections (Peepal Tree Press: 2020), ranked #2 on the Independent Publishers’ bestseller list for non-fiction.

Professor Fowler’s work with the National Trust attracted intense media coverage. There has been close to 200 national newspaper articles on the report including in the BBC, Guardian, Observer, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Times, Sunday Times, Express and Mirror. Fowler has been interviewed for the BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Observer, Times, and Telegraph, LBC, and ITV. She has also written articles in response to the furore over the report in the Telegraph and BBC History Magazine. She receives speaking invitations regularly and has gained an international platform from which she continues to promote compassionate and collective explorations of our shared past, that should and can, happen across cultures, generations and political divides.

The Countryside is her first trade book.