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Celebrating Nature Journaling Week: Plants
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Celebrating Nature Journaling Week: Plants

For today’s theme, we’re featuring botanical illustrations as inspiration for your journal notes and sketches…

1 June 2020

Art | Botany | Nature Journaling Week | Plants

Best field guides to use at home: Plants
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Best field guides to use at home: Plants

We’ve asked NHSN members to tell us about their favourite field guides for the garden or on walks close to home. In this post, Julia Black suggests guides for identifying plants….

29 May 2020

Books | Botany | Field Guides | Library

Best field guides to use at home: Moths & Caterpillars
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Best field guides to use at home: Moths & Caterpillars

We’ve asked NHSN members to tell us about their favourite field guides for the garden or on walks close to home. In this post, Heather Devey suggests guides to moths and caterpillars….

29 May 2020

Books | Field Guides | Library | Moths

Best field guides to use at home: Butterflies
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Best field guides to use at home: Butterflies

We’ve asked NHSN members to tell us about their favourite field guides for the garden or on walks close to home. In this post, Phillip Jordan recommends guides to the butterflies of Britain….

29 May 2020

Books | Butterflies | Field Guides

Best field guides to use at home: Birds
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Best field guides to use at home: Birds

We’ve asked NHSN members to tell us about their favourite field guides for the garden or on walks close to home. In this post, Neil Pont suggests guides for identifying birds….

28 May 2020

Birds | Birdwatching | Books | Field Guides | Library

Best field guides to use at home: Bees
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Best field guides to use at home: Bees

We’ve asked NHSN members to tell us about their favourite field guides for the garden or on walks close to home. In this post, Rinke Vinkenoog suggests guides for identifying bees….

28 May 2020

Bees | Books | Bumblebees | Field Guides | Library

Celebrating #Archive30
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Celebrating #Archive30

This year we again took part in #Archive30, a month-long Twitter campaign by Explore Your Archive that invites archives to…

4 May 2020

Archive | Archive30 | ExploreYourArchive | June Holmes

The Robins of Restharrow
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The Robins of Restharrow

Blog post by June Holmes, NHSN’s Archivist. Follow June on Twitter at @ArchivistJune. At the moment, many of us are…

2 May 2020

Archive | Birds | June Holmes

Online library: The wolf, bear and lynx in Durham and Northumberland
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Online library: The wolf, bear and lynx in Durham and Northumberland

Discover the history the bear, wolf and lynx in North East England with local naturalist, Terry Coult…

14 April 2020

Bear | Durham | Lynx | Wolf

From the Museum: The Return of the Samurai
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From the Museum: The Return of the Samurai

From the Museum: The Return of the Samurai Today we’re featuring a blog post by Jo Anderson, assistant keeper of…

31 March 2020

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