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Connecting with Nature Through Gosforth’s Wild Web
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Connecting with Nature Through Gosforth’s Wild Web

At the heart of Gosforth’s Wild Web is noticing nature. Recently the GWW team ran a nature connection training day for a local team, read more to find out how it went….

3 April 2025

Gosforth's Wild Web

Farmland Birds in Suburbia: Surveying Murton Gap Fields  
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Farmland Birds in Suburbia: Surveying Murton Gap Fields  

Sam Fisher reflects on a year of birdlife in an unsung rural corner of North Tyneside When offered the opportunity…

10 March 2025

Explore Your Archive Week with the North East Nature Archive:  A Journey Through History, Nature, and Art
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Explore Your Archive Week with the North East Nature Archive:  A Journey Through History, Nature, and Art

Last month, the North East Nature Archive (NENA) took part in the Archives and Records Association’s annual Explore Your Archive…

17 December 2024

Explore Your Archive

Finding Kathleen: a volunteer’s experience 
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Finding Kathleen: a volunteer’s experience 

North East Nature Archive, Sue Vaughan, reflects on her discovery of Kathleen Barrett’s vivid nature journals. Kathleen Barratt was born…

10 December 2024

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Hidden treasures: Revisiting the Fungi Paintings of Sarah Dickson
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Hidden treasures: Revisiting the Fungi Paintings of Sarah Dickson

Heritage Researcher Mel Tuckett and volunteer Alan Hart introduce one of the artistic highlights of the North East Nature Archive…

3 December 2024

Archive | Botany | Citizen Science | Fungi | History of Science | Nature's Cure | North East Nature Archive

Nurtured by Nature: Voices from the 1829 Forum
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Nurtured by Nature: Voices from the 1829 Forum

Back in October we were delighted to welcome early career naturalists to explore treasures from the North East Nature Archive. …

8 November 2024

Archive | Lockdown Naturalists

An A-Z of the beauties of Gosforth: Dick Gilhespy’s Nature Journal
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An A-Z of the beauties of Gosforth: Dick Gilhespy’s Nature Journal

Heritage researcher Mel Tuckett delves into a new addition to the North East Nature Archive As part of the Gosforth’s…

16 October 2024

Archive and Library | Gosforth's Wild Web | Nature's Cure | North East Nature Archive

Pigeons in the North East Nature Archive
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Pigeons in the North East Nature Archive

Student Research Archivist Sasha Lawson-Frost discusses the different perspectives on pigeons we can find in the North East Nature Archive….

1 October 2024

Terry Astley: A reflection of nature in poetry  
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Terry Astley: A reflection of nature in poetry  

Discover the aspirations and inspiring story of local poet, Terry Astley, in a new blog by NHSN Project Archivist, Ruth Sheldon….

5 June 2024

Archive | Terry Astley

Where do all our Blue Tits come from?
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Where do all our Blue Tits come from?

Join in to help us understand the movements of Blue Tits in and around Gosforth Nature Reserve! The Mystery  Do…

29 November 2023

Bird Ringing | Citizen Science | Ornithology

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