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Richard Carter

writer & photographer

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A Secular Thought for the Day

Sistine Chapel ceiling

Let's drop the ‘Anno Domini’.

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Recent Articles

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  • 2018: a year in photos
    My eighth annual video slideshow.
  • Where has all the heather gone?
    The Moor is looking decidedly lacklustre this August.
  • The Rough Patch
    On the advantages of being a crap gardener.
  • Going camera-less
    Taking walks without lugging around a massive camera bag: it’ll never catch on!

Recent Newsletters

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  • Newsletter No. 15: Semi-immersed
    writing & research · milestones · Anthea Bell · island wardens · hillforts · pubs · oak trees · ancient ships · self-improvement · Mark Cocker · Jan Morris · Melissa Harrison
  • Newsletter No. 14: The terror Carter’s warriors
    Liverpool · chinese warriors · Ben Myers · shoes on wires · Patti Smith · Wuthering Heights · stratigraphy · astronomy · ancient DNA · storm petrels · LIMONCELLO ICE CREAM!!
  • Newsletter No. 13: Bramblings!
    bramblings · wheatears · Mary Beard · Beaker folk · Meera Sodha · recipes · John Tyndall · Eunice Foote · religion · Ben Myers · Austin Kleon · Walter Benjamin · giant sloths · Shetland · Neil Ansell · Charles Darwin

Recent Sidelines

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  • 31 October 2018
    Watching terns.
  • 27 October 2018
    A kestrel out early,
  • 23 October 2018
    A windy night.
  • 22 October 2018
    An autumn photographic expedition.

Recent Reviews

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  • Book review: ‘The Seabird’s Cry’ by Adam Nicolson
    The lives of puffins, gannets, and other ocean voyagers.
  • Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva
    Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection explained for young children.
  • Book review: ‘Landfill’ by Tim Dee
    A celebration of gulls.
  • Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’
    Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
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