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England’s Military Heartland

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2025/10/12

‘England’s Military Heartland’ is a unique, insightful, in-depth inquiry into how war ideology, preparation and practice has insinuated itself into the narrative of Salisbury Plain, writes Nicola Chester. The rolling, thunderous booms from the shelling of Salisbury Plain, and lately, the rapid fire, dut-dut-dut-dut from Apache helicopter guns, provide a deeply familiar soundscape at home […]

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Flow

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2025/10/11

Kirsteen McNish introduces ‘Flow’ — a zine made in collaboration with Dartmoor Collective, contemplating the movement and flux which has taken place on the moor over hundreds of thousands of years. Cover painting by Louise Bougourd You are soaked with the cold rain – Like a pelt in tanning liquor. The moor’s swollen waterbelly Swags […]

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To Ness

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2025/10/10

Hayden Thorpe pens a letter to Orford Ness — the mistake-riddled landscape which birthed his latest record. Orford Ness, photographed by Gordon Joly, licensed via Creative Commons. I speak to you now as Shelley’s Frankenstein did the monster. A thing which I once perceived as a conglomerate of lifeless parts, I surely now recognise as […]

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Competition Results

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2025/10/09

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Hannah Ritchie’s Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change — in 50 Questions and Answers to give away, courtesy of Chatto & Windus. We asked: Hannah Ritchie is a Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global […]

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An unexpected encounter

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2025/10/09

As Jill Hopper walks by the River Wandle, electric blue shoots across the water. Image from ‘A history of British birds’ (London, Groombridge and Sons, 1862-1867, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The hardest thing about the end of the holiday is leaving the kingfishers. For the past decade or so, our friends have lent us […]

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Flowers Made Of Light

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2025/10/07

Written during his father’s ill health, and later recorded in his childhood home, Ben Holton’s ‘Flowers Made Of Light’ inhabits the liminal space between past, present and future, writes Alistair Fitchett. In July of 2024 Ben Holton started writing songs touched by the experience of visiting his ailing father. Visiting every other day, Holton recorded […]

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Tender Omens

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2025/10/06

In amongst the decay of autumn, Saskia McCracken finds signs of new life. Photo: Eugene Golovesov The dead stalks of last years’ geraniums reach up like empty hands from wet flower beds. Their red and pink petals have long since been taken down beneath the soil by worms who turn in the dark among the […]

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Jeb’s Jukebox

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2025/10/04

Jeb Loy Nichols and Turley Richards move through beautiful autumn business in the hills. Beautiful Country Turley Richards 1971 Warner Brothers Last week I walked up to a favourite stand of oak trees, a couple miles from my house. In the middle of the trees is a mossed and worn grave stone. When I get […]

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New in the Shop

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2025/10/03

Just some of the delectable wares available in our Bandcamp shop today, including a few new titles especially uploaded for Bandcamp Friday: Garden of Sorts is a magazine dedicated to exploring the intersection of nature, culture, and humankind. Sacred Plants, vol. 5 considers the integral relationship between humans and plants through the lens of textile […]

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Competition Results

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2025/10/02

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Dara McAnulty’s A Wild Child’s Guide to Nature at Night to give away, courtesy of Macmillan Children’s Books. We asked: In which year did Dara McAnulty win the Wainwright Prize? And the answer is: 2020. The winners are Barry […]

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Now Playing

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2025/10/02

‘Whale Station’ by The New Eves. The B-side to new single ‘Red Brick’, out now on Transgressive. Red Brick / Whale Station by The New Eves

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Looking for Mr Schwitters

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2025/09/30

Our friends at the brilliant Little Toller Books have just launched a new crowdfunding project for Looking for Mr Schwitters — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District. Jennifer Potter’s new book resurrects the pivotal German-born artist and places him firmly in the soil […]

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At Shingle Street

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2025/09/29

On a Suffolk beach, Maartje Scheltens meets an artwork that marks out the passage of time, shell-by-shell. “Do you want to come see the comet?” I asked. Later I realised I had implied to L. that I had some idea of where the comet was. For the first time in 80,000 years, this piece of […]

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Out of Whack

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2025/09/27

Next month, as part of PhotoMonth East London, Out of Whack — an exhibition of photographs by Frank Watson — opens at Grey Gallery, London Fields. Out of Whack is a photographic exhibition that considers the English landscape in its many shapes and forms; how we abuse and mistreat it, whilst on the other hand idolising picture […]

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Competition Results

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2025/09/26

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of David E. Vaughan’s The Secret Life of Corals to give away, courtesy of J. Ross Publishing. We asked: What is the name of the largest reef system on Earth? And the answer is: the Great Barrier Reef. The winners […]

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The Caught by the River Book of the Month: September

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2025/09/25

Nicola Chester’s ‘Ghosts of the Farm: Two Women’s Journeys through Time, Land and Community’ — our September Book of the Month — is a bridge between eras, between classes and perhaps, between people, writes Melissa Harrison. In the years during and after the Second World War the dauntless Miss Julia Maud White, a near-novice where […]

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New and improved Caught by the River subscriptions

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2025/09/25

Announcing an overhaul of our paid Steady memberships. For the past few months, we have been quietly making plans to revive and renew our paid subscription offering, and we’re very pleased to share that big changes are just around the corner. Despite the consideration, consultation and work which went into our initial subscription launch four […]

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Now Playing

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2025/09/24

‘Delphinium Bliss’ by Cassandra Jenkins. My Light, My Massage Parlor by Cassandra Jenkins Taken from the album My Light, My Massage Parlor, out now on Dead Oceans.

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Folklore Tapes present: The Watchers

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2025/09/21

The good folk of Folklore Tapes are currently crowdfunding their next project: a reimagining and creative expansion of 1969 film The Watchers. Shot on the moors above Todmorden on 16mm black-and-white film by students of the Royal College of Art, and running at just 26 minutes, the film weaves together themes and stylistic elements that […]

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Between Dusk and Dawn

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2025/09/20

As froglike jolts signal big life changes, Lucy Underwood considers her proximity to the natural world. My eyes dart to the silhouette of a bat that cuts across the sky. A brief encounter like a short, sharp spark of a lighter. You can never be too sure if you saw it or if it was […]

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