Colonial Countryside

This project assembles authors, writers, historians and primary pupils to explore country houses’ Caribbean and East India Company connections. It commissions, resources and publishes new writing.

• Over 100 primary children will visit 10 National Trust houses
• Each child is crafting short personal essays and fiction, presenting it to live, print and digital audiences
• Peepal Tree is commissioning 10 authors and 10 historians to write stories and historical commentaries about each participating house for an illustrated book about the topic

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