19 Facts About David Bangs

David Bangs is a field naturalist, social historian, public artist, author and conservationist.

David Bangs has written extensively on the countryside management, both historically and present day in the English county of Sussex.

David Bangs worked as a public mural painter in central London from 1980 to 1990.

David Bangs has campaigned on a number of fronts to protect access rights to Sussex Downland.

David Bangs was in the leadership teams of successful campaigns to prevent their sale from public ownership to private ownership.

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David Bangs was co-leader of the Sussex Access Campaign and its programme of mass trespasses that helped build pressure for the enactment of a partial right to roam in the CROW Act .

David Bangs said reconnecting people with nature is “crucial for stopping global ecocide”.

David Bangs has co-led other successful campaigns such as 'Defend Council Housing' which campaigned against the privatisation of the City of Brighton's council housing .

David Bangs has appeared on Radio 4's Today Programme, Farming Today and Pebble Mill at One and he has appeared on the BBC1 programme Countryfile.

David Bangs has written three books, Whitehawk Hill: Where the Turf meets the Surf, a landscape history and natural history of Brighton's most remarkable Downland survival, A Freedom to Roam Guide to the Brighton Downs: from Shoreham to Newhaven and Beeding to Lewes and The Land of the Brighton Line: A Field Guide to the Middle Sussex and Southeast Surrey Weald .

David Bangs has a website for his third book, Land of the Brighton Line, and has co-produced a video describing the ownership and ecological status of the Brighton Downs, Brightons Big Secret: The Downland We Own.

David Bangs hosted the BBC2 programme This Land: Coppers and Bangs, which was recommended in The Times "Today's Viewing Choice" and The Independent's "Pick of the Day".

David Bangs created many public murals in central London from 1980 to 1990, including contributions to the Brixton murals and a mural commemorating the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

David Bangs recognises capitalism as a system that is destroying nature and the necessary habitats for nature's ongoing survival.

David Bangs feels a strong attachment to the county of Sussex and his family moved back to Hove in 1958, when he was seven.

David Bangs went to Reading University and then to St Martin's College of Art, where he says he was "untrained" at being an artist.

David Bangs was one of the 'Huntley Street 14' with Piers Corbyn who got charged with conspiracy after the eviction of a big squat in 1978.

David Bangs returned to Brighton after 25 years away, largely living in Kings Cross, London.

David Bangs has been a public artist, a care worker, and a gardener.