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2025/09/03

After a few months out of print, we’re very pleased to share that these two beautiful and popular titles from Black Lodge Press are BACK! A Radical Garden is a 16-page, A4, 2-colour riso zine by CJ Reay, collecting posters and thoughts on the radical act of gardening and growing. The zine looks at CJ’s […]

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England’s military heartland

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2025/09/02

Co-authored by Vron Ware, Antonia Dawes, Alice Cree and Mitra Pariyar and published by Manchester University Press, ‘England’s military heartland’ provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain. Read an extract from the book below. National heritage If you were planning to head across the Plain as a way to avoid the […]

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Unfurling: August

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2025/08/31

Medieval churches, pteridomania and custard creams: Pip Squire considers ferns’ lasting entanglement with the idea of beauty. Once you start looking, you notice ferns everywhere. I’m not just talking about physical, living ferns in the woods and walls, but also those utilised in the realms of art and design, where their sinuous forms have long […]

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Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest...

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2025/08/30

Annie Worsley and Kirsteen Bell’s latest croft-to-croft correspondence comes accompanied by grasshopper chitters, and the smell of crushed heather. Dear Kirsteen, How are you? Have your boys gone back to school? We have a final ‘batch’ of grandchildren with us until they start school in September – a much later return. I’ve been thinking about you, […]

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Return

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2025/08/29

Today marks the release of ‘Return’, a transportive new film which brings to life the RSPB and partners’ successful 50 year-long endeavour to bring the White-tailed Eagle back to our shores. The film blends spellbinding present-day footage of the birds thriving in their Scottish heartlands with archival gems, and features leading voices including RSPB Ambassadors […]

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Competition Results

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2025/08/28

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had 5 bundles of books from John Murray’s brand new John Murray Classics imprint to give away. We asked: Riffing on the David Attenborough book he has written the introduction for, what was the title of Dara McAnulty’s debut book, first published by Little Toller […]

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A Life Outside: Hope Bourne on Exmoor

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2025/08/28

Opening next month at the Somerset Rural Life Museum, A Life Outside offers a new appraisal of the work and life of the Exmoor writer and artist Hope Bourne. Late summer Autumn 89, Ferny Ball, The garden and the back of the caravan, looking towards the hill, 1989, colour photograph. Copyright The Exmoor Society This exhibition […]

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Dog Walk Report: June / July / August

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2025/08/25

Diva Harris reflects on a summer of big, ancient oaks and Little Owls. Ground cover: High grass full of lost possessions. Bracket fungus, pulped oak bough, fur and coughed-up bones. It began with a serendipitous encounter beneath the boughs of the park’s tallest, oldest tree several months ago, when there was still a chill in […]

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The Caught by the River Book of the Month: August

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2025/08/23

An extract from Jenn Ashworth’s ‘The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North’, our August Book of the Month. ‘I’ve decided this is my mid-life crisis. Shirley Valentine in a North Face jacket,’ I said. My friend Clive was polite enough to laugh. But there was truth hiding in the joke I was trying […]

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Modernist Scotland

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2025/08/22

There are just 4 days left to support The Modernist Society’s Crowdfunder raising funds for the publication of Bruce Peter’s Modernist Scotland — a fully illustrated guide to 150 transformative post-war Scottish buildings. This comprehensive study documents the revolutionary architectural movement that transformed Scotland’s built environment in the decades following World War II. Through meticulous research […]

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Competition Results

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2025/08/21

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Dan Richards’ Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark to give away. We asked: What is the UK’s smallest species of owl? And the answer is: the Little Owl (Athene noctua). The winners are Lois Smith, Jamie Forman and Jill Brown. […]

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Now Playing

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2025/08/21

‘Cururu’ by Merlyn Driver. Drawn from a collaboration with Brazilian biologist Mariana Retuci Pontes and her recordings of amphibians in the Atlantic Forest, “The soundscape is a single unedited recording, capturing the remarkable calls of several different species” says Merlyn. “‘Cururu’ is the indigenous name for toads of the genus Rhinella, such as Rhinella icterica.” […]

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Wild Thyme and Honey: Walking in Prespa

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2025/08/20

Annemarie Lopez joins a gathering of walkers, artists, scholars, and ecologists in Northern Greece. It’s hot and my legs burn as I scramble down the steep rocky path to Cape Roti. I’m with a small group of fellow seekers, and we are looking for the evocatively named Metamorphosis hermitage, a sort of cave chapel that […]

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Lighthouses of the UK #23: The Sir John Barrow Monument

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2025/08/19

As his project documenting the UK’s lighthouses continues, Ben Langworthy reaches a lightless tower in Cumbria. This 100-foot-tall tower stands on Hoad Hill, just outside Ulverston in Cumbria, and offers spectacular views of the surrounding landscape to anyone willing to climb the 112 steps to the top. Completed in 1851, the monument was designed to […]

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Runner’s High

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2025/08/16

Out this Friday, ‘Runner’s High’ — Jesse Chandler’s second solo outing under the name Pneumatic Tubes — is a musical meditation on mystic landscapes and the spiritual power of running. Gareth Thompson reviews. Jesse Chandler was jogging beside the water in Istanbul. After about five miles he just kept going and going, it felt so […]

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Beside the Ocean of Time

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2025/08/14

Today, after over 250 years of publishing, John Murray Press launch their John Murray Classics imprint, with each new edition of these classic texts introduced by a well-known fan. Find Amy Liptrot’s brand new foreword to George Mackay Brown’s ‘Beside the Ocean of Time’ extracted below. Beside the Ocean of Time was George Mackay Brown’s […]

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Competition Results

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2025/08/14

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of To Have or To Hold: Nature’s Hidden Relationships by Sophie Pavelle to give away. We asked: With which other insects are ants known to engage in a mutualistic relationship — feeding on their honeydew, and protecting them from predators and […]

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Submission Reminder: An Antidote to Indifference –...

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2025/08/13

A reminder that we are currently seeking submissions to a special edition of our irregular print zine An Antidote to Indifference, dedicated entirely to the count(r)y of Cornwall. Submissions close on 1st September 2025. The brief: We are looking for pieces which explore and celebrate the distinct cultural identity of Cornwall. What does it mean […]

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New in the Shop

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2025/08/12

Vols. 1 & 2 of Common Treasures — a new series of books about the challenges faced by rural communities, written by people who are working on the ground and in the fields. Each volume gathers the very best essays about climate adaptation, food production and land use, and presents them as alternatives to the […]

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Trespassing for the Disabled

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2025/08/10

Restricted access to the benefit system for the sick and disabled is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice. I am writing a week after Members of Parliament — individuals of influence, wealth and property — voted on the welfare Green Paper “pathways to work” which understood deferring devastating changes to Personal […]

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