Histories of
Urban gardening
Writing on allotments and guerrilla gardening (for academic articles – see JC’s Academic Publications)
Blog on Social History Society website: ‘Urban Allotments - historical haven during times of national crisis’.
‘1918 Allotment’
In 2022, JC Niala was awarded the 'Social History Society's Public History Prize' for her project, '1918 Allotment’. During the growing season of 2021, JC collaborated with Fig an art, horticulture and community project in Oxford to recreate an English allotment in the style of the year 1918. Using open pollinated, non-hybrid heritage seeds from the era the project used historical enactment, poetry and public engagement to explore relations between the 1918-1919 ‘Spanish Flu’ and COVID-19 pandemics, the First World War and the role of allotments.The project was supported by The Humanities Cultural Programme, TORCH Outputs included an exhibition and artists journal of poems: ‘Portal: 1918 Allotment’.
Blogs that JC wrote throughout the project can be found on the FIG website.
Poems and Interviews about the project can be found on the TORCH website.
