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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

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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

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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

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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

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A new addition to the NHSN team
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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…

18 September 2019

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Book Review: The James Losh Diaries
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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…

14 August 2019

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NHSN Book Reviews #1
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  My House of Sky – The Life and Work of J. A. Baker Hetty Saunders has created this biography…

26 October 2018

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