petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social
Heritage guy at @nenature.bsky.social
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'Nature's Cure in Times of Need': collecting stories of how engaging with nature has helped you get through hard times, generously supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
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I assume it means bird!
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probably cos this is my work account where i do wholesome things about history and nature rather than being a horrible bolshevik degenerate
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I thought so!
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excellent
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I can thoroughly recommend Richard's books and other writings: richarddsmyth.com
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The lad who wrote it, @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social, is a friend of the NHSN who's written for our blog before, and we're hoping to have him in for an author event in the autumn www.nhsn.org.uk/the-lapwing-...
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no-one has ever loved anything like mucky novelist Richard Smyth likes typing out the word "perineum"
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🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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no
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There's a Hebron in Northumberland
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who do you think cajoled / seduced / bullied Richard into this whole thing
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In Alexander Butters' case, there's a link to America - a miner from Cramlington, he emigrated in the 1850s and ended up as a mine manager in Macoupin Co., Illinois. We're sure he must have some living descendents, and would love to be in touch with them.
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This is a very underresearched part of the history of working-class culture and autodidacticism, and we would love to hear from anyone who can help us fill in the gaps in our research, and especially from any living descendants of these five remarkable men: www.nhsn.org.uk/the-pitmen-n...
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The pitman naturalists that Maureen has chased, with incredible determination, through the archives, were men who spent their lives working in the Northumberland coalfield on the 19th century, & spent their spare time becoming scientific authorities on the fossils they were unearthing in their jobs
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Also supplied me with probably the only good epigraph to a book I'll ever come up with. Thanks Edward! Enjoy it down there!
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And on Tues 8 July, at our Gosforth Nature Reserve, we're holding a willow weaving workshop for everyone interested in this ancient natural craft:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/willow-wea...
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On Thurs 12 June, we've got local artist and lecturer Julia Heslop and conservationist Sam Fisher joining us for an evening event, discussing their fascinating community-led project on housing development and ecology in North Tyneside's beautiful rural edgelands: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-murton-...
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You're too kind!
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not till i'm dead, baby