The return of the native

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The return of the native

An account of England at once traditional and idiosyncratic

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The TLS Magazine

16 August, 2024

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Life in the slow lane

Plundering a local byway for a spot of festive foraging, John Lewis-Stempel finds all life proliferating in the multitudinous micro-habitat of the winter hedgerow

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

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The Breath of the Gods: The History and ...

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Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

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Country Life

Life in the slow lane

Plundering a local byway for a spot of festive foraging, John Lewis-Stempel finds all life proliferating in the multitudinous micro-habitat of the winter hedgerow

The answer is blowing in the wind

The Breath of the Gods: The History and ...

BBC History Magazine

2025 books of the year

The TLS

Serial hero

“I am a Member of our funny little ...