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2025/06/11

An update on our remit, submissions guidelines and contact details. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, New York :[American Fisheries Society],1885-1896, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library After almost 20 years of making it up as we go along, we’ve decided it’s high time we demystified the process of submitting unsolicited work for publication on the […]

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BT Telephone Kiosks, Isle of Mull, 2023

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2025/06/08

William Arnold’s project documenting the Isle of Mull’s BT phoneboxes is now available in book form. William writes: ‘I’m not that into telephone boxes, I just want the phone to work. In August of 2023, I travelled to the Isle of Mull to photograph on Polaroid film and attempt to make calls from all 21 […]

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River • Flow / 河 • 流

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2025/06/07

The Suzhou River meanders through Shanghai like a shimmering ribbon, tracing a graceful right-angled course, flowing west to east, then turning northward. This river, steeped in urban memory, serves as both a radiant stage for China’s creativity and a flowing symphony connecting the world. Its century-old waters whisper parables of tradition merging with modernity, bearing […]

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Competition Results

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2025/06/05

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Jonathan Mullard’s Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands to give away, courtesy of William Collins. We asked: In which UK county would you find the Fossil Forest — the remains of an ancient submerged forest from the Jurassic period? And the […]

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On The Hedge

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2025/06/05

Courtney Blash Opening next week at RHS Garden Wisley’s Old Laboratory, On The Hedge is a striking new photographic exhibition that delves into our relationship with hedges and topiary. From their role in shaping our landscapes and homes to their environmental benefits, the exhibition offers a fresh perspective on these often overlooked natural boundaries through […]

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The Postal Paths

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2025/06/03

Connecting the landscape, its people and its stories, Alan Cleaver’s ‘The Postal Paths’ offers an engrossing, thoroughly researched and timely insight into a history that is just about still within living memory, writes Kevin Boniface. I can’t really remember exactly how it happened, but I tripped and fell down some steps while out on my […]

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Rights of Nature: Bringing the Conversation out from...

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2025/06/02

Considering recent works by Robert Macfarlane and Patrick Galbraith, Karen Lloyd poses the question: what would nature itself ask for, if given a voice? From ‘The birds of New England and adjacent states’, Boston :Noyes, Holmes,1870 [c1867], via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. I was on the fourth floor looking out through plate glass windows when […]

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Lighthouses of the UK #22: Ardnamurchan Point

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2025/05/31

In his quest to draw his way around the UK’s lighthouses, Ben Langworthy reaches the most westerly point of the mainland — and the only ‘Egyptian’ style lighthouse anywhere in the world. Ardnamurchan Point is the most westerly point of the UK mainland. There are many arguments about where this remote place gained its somewhat […]

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Competition Results

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2025/05/29

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Julian Hoffman’s Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece to give away, courtesy of Elliott & Thompson. We asked: Which of Julian’s previous books was Highly Commended for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation? […]

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Unfurling: May

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2025/05/29

Pip Squire finds poetry, beauty and magic in fern names. Many species of fern have beautiful names. Open a book about ferns and you can recite the contents like a poem, or a spell: filmy ferns, maiden hair, bracken, parsley fern, heart fern, spleenwort, hart’s-tongue, goodyear, black fern, shield fern, buckler fern, polypody, royal fern, […]

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Now Playing

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2025/05/28

‘New Flowers’ by Maia Friedman. Goodbye Long Winter Shadow by Maia Friedman Taken from the album Goodbye Long Winter Shadow, out now on Last Gang Records.

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Dog Walk Report: May

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2025/05/26

Theft of land on Diva Harris’s doorstep begets theft of land, liberty, and life 2000 miles away in Palestine. Ground cover: tarp, barrier, tape, big metal wall. Cracked cement. Empty baggies and crushed lager cans. New grass trodden back into mud. In the week the Supreme Court rules to protect public access rights on Dartmoor […]

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OmVed Gardens Reopens

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2025/05/25

All photos: Will Hearle Next Saturday, 31st May, North London’s OmVed Gardens reopens to the public, unveiling new buildings which comprise the UK’s first centre for food, ecology and creativity. New spaces include events space the Barn, the Kitchen — complete with accessible rooftop garden — a dedicated Seed Library, and the Greenhouse, a striking […]

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Peckerwood: Field notes from a feral’d garden

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2025/05/24

The birds, bees and butterflies are busy in Mark Mattock‘s “feral’d” NW2 garden. April “You’re squawking like a pink monkey bird” – David Bowie, ‘Moonage Daydream’. The starling is full on freestyling from his skinny ash spray over Sparrow Bush, aiming his primrose dagger beak towards some invisible point in the immense spring blue above. […]

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Competition Results

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2025/05/22

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Peter Halliday, Bethan Dalton, Lizzie Biggs and Jessica Halliday’s Cabin Crew: Hird & Brooks and the pursuit of the perfect holiday house to give away, courtesy of The Modernist. We asked: In which locale would you find the multi-award-winning […]

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Marginalia | song to the river

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2025/05/21

Bevis Bowden’s latest project Marginalia | song to the river is a film that explores the river and its wildlife in a time of increasing land pressure and climate change. Through poetry, song and statement this film asks us who we are and how we fit into the dynamic of our surroundings and nature. The […]

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TO BE

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2025/05/20

On World Bee Day, Wolfgang Buttress introduces a soundscape, out today, which combines bee communications and meditative music. Nearly 10 years ago I was inspired to imagine and subsequently realise a sculpture called The Hive. The artwork was the centrepiece for the UK Pavilion for the World EXPO in Milan, 2015. It was a response to […]

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What Bird is That? — Terns

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2025/05/18

Made in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust and Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, the latest of Will Rose’s excellent What Bird is That? animations focuses on the nature reserve’s breeding terns. Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is famous for its breeding Little Terns, Sandwich Terns and Common Terns. Want to learn more about what makes them so […]

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Round About Town

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2025/05/17

Huddersfield postman Kevin Boniface shares photos and journal entries from his round of 20 years. I’ve kept journals ever since I rejoined the Royal Mail in 1998. They consist of found notes and objects, bits of hastily scrawled observational texts, diary entries, voice memos, audio notes, photographs and film clips. Over the years these journals […]

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New in the shop

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2025/05/16

The upcoming Issue 7 of the beautiful gardening magazine Pleasant Place is now available for pre-order. Following issues on the topics of nasturtiums, compost, artichokes, and topiary, this next volume focuses on daffodils. Many bulbous plants have been dubbed ‘heralds of spring’, but none is more deserving of the title than those carrying actual megaphones […]

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