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How Covid impacted our relationship with nature
Nature was a lifeline for many of us during the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. As we mark five years…
Nature's Cure
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The Pitmen Naturalists 4: Miner Swain
In the fourth instalment of her series on the citizen scientists of the late nineteenth-century Northumbrian coalfield, Maureen Flisher follows…
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Bird Life of Bygone Fenham
Michael Greatbatch explores the work of a forgotten nature diarist in turn-of-the-century Newcastle Bird Life of Bygone Fenham is the…
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Oh what a night! Nature’s Cure at the NHSN Monday Night Lecture
Mel Tuckett shares some of the stories – of change, growth, and nurture – recorded by the Nature’s Cure team…
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The Pitmen Naturalists 3: John Salt (1839-?)
In the third instalment of her series on the unsung citizen scientists of the Northumberland coalfield, Maureen Flisher chases an…
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‘Beyond the bounds of his usual gravity’: Gilbert White’s art of nature writing
Library volunteer Ian Bower rediscovers an early classic of the English countryside in the North East Nature Archive The NHSN’s…
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The Pitmen Naturalists 2: Joseph Taylor (1841 -1925)
In the second instalment of a series on the unsung citizen scientists of the Northumberland coalfield, archives volunteer Maureen Flisher…
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Mr. Atkinson’s Remarkable Trees
Nick Johnson, project lead of the Northumbria Veteran Tree Project, explores the legacy of George Clayton Atkinson’s pioneering 1876 catalogue…
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Community, craft and conversation at Land of Oak and Iron
NHSN Heritage Researcher Rachel Anderson reflects on a community workshop about nature and wellbeing as part of the lottery heritage…
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The Pitmen Naturalists 1: John Simm (1829 – 1904)
Library and Archive volunteer Maureen Flisher explores the life and library of a citizen scientist from West Cramlington I was…