Part of the series curated by organic food grower and writer Claire Ratinon and artist and teacher Sam Ayre writer, researcher and maker JC Niala and historian Dr Alex Mayhew will explore how pandemics draw people to nature, the outside world and home growing.

JC Niala is a writer, poet, and anthropologist whose work traces the way in which our imaginations of nature affects how we treat it. During the growing season of 2021, she recreated an allotment in the style of the year 1918.

Dr. Alex Mayhew is a historian of modern warfare with a particular interest in the cultural features of the Great War. He has studied, taught, and worked at the London School of Economics since 2014. Next year, his first book, Making Sense of the Great War, will be published by Cambridge University Press.

This event will feature BSL interpretation throughout.