Three acres and a cow

Three acres and a cow was a slogan used by the liberal radical British land reform campaigners of the 1880s, and revived by the distributists of the 1920s.

Collings used the phrase as a slogan for his 1885 land reform campaign, and it became used as part of the political struggle against rural poverty.

[4] He and his fellow liberal radicals hoped that land ownership would result in a measure of personal independence for the new owners.

[6] Later, he would be satirized in John Bull's Adventures in the Fiscal Wonderland as a White Rabbit character who was fixated on the idea of three acres and a cow, as well as blindly loyal to Chamberlain.

[7] This appeared in the context of the back-to-the-land movement at the end of the 19th century, when Victorian-era factory workers pushed for economic policies that would allow them to return to life in the countryside.