| Description | Comprising assorted papers relating to the Field Days project, including:
- two sets of the Field Days postcards and material relating to the design of the packaging;
- a folder labelled 'Field Days writers & poets' containing correspondence from writers Fraser Harrison, John Fowles, Brian Jackman, and John Burnside, as well as press clippings relating to writers and fields, and a list of 'Field Days Poets/Writers';
- a folder labelled 'Field Days - panels' containing papers relating to the Fields Days panel exhibition, including a leaflet, press release, and draft text for panels;
- papers relating to Lammas meadows;
- papers relating to hay meadows;
- papers relating to plans for a bypass on water meadows in Salisbury;
- a booklet of poetry entitled 'An inventory of the near lands of Birmingham and beyond over some bridges' by David Hart, Birmingham Poet Laureate 1997-1998 (1999);
- correspondence, photocopied articles, press clippings, magazines, print-outs of web pages, lists of field names, manuscript notes, and a transcript of reminiscences of two 'Shropshire lads';
- a typescript draft of 'Common Ground's Manifesto for Fields';
- articles about fields by Sue Clifford (Joint Coordinator of Common Ground), including an article entitled 'Fields of History' (1997) and an article entitled 'Ringing the Changes' (1993);
- two leaflets produced by Common Ground for the Field Days project entitled '1. Conservation, celebration and the meaning of names' (1995) and '2. Owning and Leasing Fields for Community Use' (1996);
- and published reports, including 'Creating Attractive Grasslands Using Native Plant Species', produced by the Nature Conservancy Council (1981) and a photocopy of 'Cultural Indicators for the Regional Character Map of England Field Characteristics' (1995), produced by Lancaster University.
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