The Archive divides England into eight documentary regions, each with its own landscape, seasonal calendar, and concentration of endangered traditions. Year One is active across all eight simultaneously, following the calendar of each.
The city as village. Inns of Court, Smithfield, Wren churches, the ceremonial calendar.
Flint churches, the last trugg makers, fenland stewards, the oldest continuous traditions.
Lewes Bonfire Night, chalk downland stewards, the November calendar's most urgent window.
Punt builders, riverside keepers, the long tenure of the valley's institutional memory.
Dry stone wallers, well dressers, Cooper's Hill cheese rollers. The most concentrated Carrier region.
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, Herefordshire cider orchardists, border country craft tradition.
Somerset wassailing, the Levels stewards, the last cider-making families of the Vale of Taunton.
Swaledale hay meadow farmers, drystone wallers, the northern archive's oldest subjects.
“The English landscape is not wilderness. It is maintained. Every acre has a name, a steward, and a story that will vanish when they do.”