Harrowdown Hill
John Spinks
On the Morning of the 18th of July 2003 at approximately 9.20am the body of Dr David Kelly was discovered in woodland on Harrowdown Hill, not far from the Oxfordshire village of Longworth. A subsequent public enquiry found that he had died by suicide.
From 1991 up until the time of his death, Dr Kelly had been a lead member of the scientific teams tasked by the United Nations with monitoring and removing Iraq's chemical and biological weapons capability. His death occurred shortly after he was revealed to have been the source of a BBC story which questioned the Blair government's case for going to war in Iraq.
Spinks had been investigating the poetry and politics of place. “I started thinking about the whole notion of nationhood and conflict, and part of it seems to come back to the land. There is still a fierce attachment to a very particular notion of England. There’s this connection with the soil. I began to imagine a piece of work about England, a way to describe a certain psychological texture.”
Edizioni Sete & Lugo Land, 2023
2023
Hardcover
28.5 x 23.5 cm
144 pages
Limited 500 edition
Signed
£60
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John Spinks
On the Morning of the 18th of July 2003 at approximately 9.20am the body of Dr David Kelly was discovered in woodland on Harrowdown Hill, not far from the Oxfordshire village of Longworth. A subsequent public enquiry found that he had died by suicide.
From 1991 up until the time of his death, Dr Kelly had been a lead member of the scientific teams tasked by the United Nations with monitoring and removing Iraq's chemical and biological weapons capability. His death occurred shortly after he was revealed to have been the source of a BBC story which questioned the Blair government's case for going to war in Iraq.
Spinks had been investigating the poetry and politics of place. “I started thinking about the whole notion of nationhood and conflict, and part of it seems to come back to the land. There is still a fierce attachment to a very particular notion of England. There’s this connection with the soil. I began to imagine a piece of work about England, a way to describe a certain psychological texture.”
Edizioni Sete & Lugo Land, 2023
2023
Hardcover
28.5 x 23.5 cm
144 pages
Limited 500 edition
Signed
£60
Enquire