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Book review: A Prickly Affair – My Life with Hedgehogs, by Hugh Warwick.
I’ve always had a soft spot for hedgehogs, growing up they were one of the only wild animals I experienced…
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Book Review: The Secret Life of the Owl, by John Lewis-Stempel
A wise old owl sat in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke…
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Book review: Bird Therapy, by Joe Harkness
World Mental Health Day is 10th October every year. By happy coincidence, I picked up a new acquisition from the…
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A new addition to the NHSN team
NHSN are delighted to welcome Jen Whitney who joins the team this week on an 11-month research secondment. Jen is…
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Book Review: The James Losh Diaries
The James Losh Diaries 1802-1833. Life and Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Newcastle-upon-Tyne. By Deborah Smith. Cambridge Scholars publishing. £64.99. In…
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Book review: How to be an Urban Birder
David Lindo, Princeton University Press 2018, 232 pages Jamie Oliver commends this attractively produced and very accessible softback publication, now…
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Gosforth Park Inspires Greatness
Life is full of surprises and there are plenty to be found in the NHSN Archive! A few weeks ago,…
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NHSN Book Reviews #1
My House of Sky – The Life and Work of J. A. Baker Hetty Saunders has created this biography…
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A closer look at our ‘Women Naturalists’ exhibition
As the Great Exhibition of the North prepares to launch and the Great North Museum: Hancock completes the final preparations…
GNM: Hancock | Grace Hickling | Great Exhibition of North | Women Naturalists
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A closer look at Brady’s Ostracod
Of all the treasures in the Great North Museum: Hancock collections, it is often the most nondescript that boast the…