My writing about rural affairs over the past 30 years has fallen into four main categories:

1.Land use conflict

Books
The Theft of the Countryside (1980, Maurice Temple Smith)
This Land is Our Land (1987, Grafton Books; 1997, A Gaia Classic: Gaia Books)

Articles
Many, including…
‘Fields which Planners should Conquer’ (Forma, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1976)
‘The Cuts and the Countryside’ (Rucksack, Winter 1980)
‘A Plan to Save the Landscape’ (The Sunday Times, 18 January 1981
‘The Theft of the Countryside: A Reply to the Critics’ (The Countryman, Spring 1981)
‘Whose Countryside?’ (Summer School Report of Proceedings, Royal Town Planning Institute, 1981)
‘The People's Countryside’ (New Statesman, 23 April 1982)
‘Viewpoint: Avoiding Destruction’ (Footloose, No. 3, October 1982)
‘Getting the Best from our Growing Green Acres’ (The Guardian, 1 May 1987)
‘No Space for Parks: why Scotland is without National Parks’ (The Geographical Magazine, June 1987)
‘Free the Countryside for the People’ (The Listener, 18 June 1987)
A regular column entitled ‘Lie of the Land’, in the monthly magazine Environment Now (October 1987 to June 1990)
A regular column entitled ‘Country Matters’ in Today newspaper (1987 - 1988)
‘Ulster: the Need for Control’ (Landscape, February, 1988)
‘Scarred Slopes’ (Landscape, May 1988)
‘Parks with a Difference’ (The Times, 27 March 1989)
‘Forests: Profit with Pleasure’ (The Times, 17 June 1989)
‘Rape of the Countryside’ (The Times, 10 July 1989)
‘Cutting the Cost of Countryside Protection’ (The Times, 21 August 1989)
‘Maintaining the Distinction’ (Town and Country Planning, Vol. 58, No. 9, September 1989)
‘Clearing the Air with a Tax’ (The Times, 15 September 1989)
‘Why Agricultural Set-aside Should be Set Aside’ (The Times, 5 October 1989)
‘Patten is not quite as Green as he might’ Look (The Times, 1 November 1989)
‘Farming for the Future’ (The Daily Telegraph, 10 June 1989)
‘Too Precious, too Scottish to be left with the Scots’ (The Times, 31 June 1990)
‘How are we going to keep them down in the Village?’ (The Times, 25 August 1990)
‘Birds of Passage Betrayed by Brussels’ (The Times, 29 September 1990)
‘Woodman, Spare us this Cash Demand’ (The Times, 16 February 1991)
‘Stop Fencing in Nature’ (The Times, 23 March 1991)
‘Who will best care for the Countryside?’ (The Times, 1 April, 1991)
‘Folly down on the Farm’ (The Guardian, 29 November 1991)
‘Hunting the Hunters’ (The Times, 1 January 1992)
Getting Back to the Land’ (The Times, 18 April 1992)
‘Law of the Land’ (The Guardian, 17 July, 1996)
‘Should Petrol Prices and Fuel Tax be Cut?’ The Independent on Sunday, 9 July, 2000)

2.Land ownership

Books
This Land is Our Land (1987, Grafton Books; 1997, A Gaia Classic: Gaia Books)

Articles
‘Who Owns the Countryside’ (New Society, 28 February 1986)
‘Pursuit of the Gentry’ (The Times Higher Education Supplement, 7 August 1987)
‘Trust at Bay as Townsmen Close in (The Times, 13 December 1990)

3. Public access

Books
A Right to Roam (1999, Oxford University Press)
(WINNER OF THE OUTDOOR WRITERS GUILD'S BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2000)

Chapters in Books
Recreation: The Key to the Survival of England's Countryside (Future Landscapes ed. M MacEwen, Chatto and Windus, 1976)
Robbers v. Revolutionaries: What the Battle for Access is really all about (Rights of Way: Policy, Culture and Management ed. C Watkins, Cassell, 1998)
A Private Place: Trespass and the Struggle against it (Contested Countryside eds. J Burchardt and P. Conford, forthcoming: 2005, I B Tauris)

Articles
‘Metropolitan Escape Routes’ (The London Journal, May 1979)
‘The People's Countryside’ (New Statesman, 23 April 1982)
‘Free the Countryside for the People’ (The Listener, 18 June 1987)
‘Turnstiles on the Trails’ (The Times, 4 February 1989)
‘Give us back our Freedom to Roam where we Please’ (The Times, 26 May 1990)
‘The German Way’ (Rambling Today, Winter 1991)
‘Walkers' Rights in Switzerland’ (Rambling Today, Spring 1992)
‘Getting Back to the Land’ (The Times, 18 April 1992)
‘Access the Danish Way’ (Rambling Today, Autumn 1992)
‘Northern Rights’ (Outdoors Illustrated, March 1993)
‘Rural Vision: Welcome Town Dwellers to our Villages’ (Rural Viewpoint, Spring 1994)
‘We Need to be Free to Walk’ (The Times, 20 February, 1999)
‘Historical Notes: Private Property is a Public Asset too’ (The Independent, 1 March, 1999)
‘Our Ramblers must have the Right to Roam’ (The Express, 9 March, 1999)
‘Scots Show the Way’ (The Guardian, 26 May, 1999)
‘Opinion: Fitting the Bill’ (Geographical, April, 2000)
‘First Shoots: Access: An English View’ (Reforesting Scotland, 24, Summer 2000)
‘Cross Current: Access to the Countryside’ (History Today, September, 2000)
‘Should we have a Right to Roam? Debate: Leading Conservationists Robin Page and Marion Shoard March to their Corners’ (The Ecologist, October, 2000)
‘Off the Track: Problems Looming for the Right to Roam’ (Managing the Challenge of Access: Proceedings from the 2000 Annual Conference of the Countryside Recreation Network, edited by Emma Barratt)

4.Landscape tastes

Chapters In Books
Why Landscapes are Harder to Protect than Buildings (Our Past before Us: Why do we Save it? eds. D Lowenthal and M Binney, Temple Smith, 1981)
The Lure of the Moors (Valued Environments eds. J Burgess and J Gold, Allen and Unwin, 1982)
Edgelands (Remaking the Landscape ed. J Jenkins, Profile Books, 2002)
(WINNER OF THE OUTDOOR WRITERS GUILD'S AWARD OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE BEST ONE-OFF FEATURE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, 2003)

Articles
‘Children and the Countryside’ (The Planner, May 1979)
‘Now the Call of the Tame Demands to be Heard’ (The Times, 28 April 1990)
‘Stop Fencing in Nature’ (The Times, 23 March 1991)
‘On the Poets' Path’ (The Times, 2 November, 1993)
‘A Month in the Country: a Personal View’ (Country Living, October 1994)
‘Britain's Changing Places’ (The Guardian, 2 November, 1994)
‘My Bay of Old Memories’ (Isle of Thanet Gazette, 27 January 1995)
‘Marion Shoard Never Travels Without’ (The Guardian, 7 October, 2000)
‘The Edgelands’ (Town and Country Planning, May, 2003)
'On the Edge' (Countryside Voice, Summer 2004)

Purchase:
To buy a copy of This Land is Our Land send a cheque for £7 (which includes postage and packing costs) and your address to Marion Shoard at PO Box 403, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1SA.

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