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Writing tagged: ‘Calder Valley’

In search of the delicate flapwort—and why we need tricorders

On an expedition I made in search for a rare plant, and the need for DNA-assisted species identification devices.

Published 28-Aug-2013
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: bryology, Calder Valley, expeditions, favourite places, GrrlScientist, Guardian, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge, science, Yorkshire
Stoodley Pike Monument from Trig Point 4144

Exploring my damp patch

For many years, I've sought in vain for a particular wild flower on my local patch—a plant that inspired Charles Darwin to write an entire book on insectivorous plants.

Published 07-Aug-2013
Filed under: Featured Writing, Writing Tags: amphibians, Calder Valley, Drosera rotundifolia, expeditions, favourite places, flowers, Hebden Bridge, newts, proto-sidelines, Richard Mabey, sundews, the Moor, Yorkshire
Bottle garden
Milk bottle garden.

Finding new ways

How plants can end up in the strangest of places.

Published 11-Jul-2013
Filed under: Writing Tags: Calder Valley, expeditions, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, On the Moor (book), proto-sidelines, the Moor, Yorkshire
Urnfield
Bronze Age Urnfield.

The Thomas Browne Affair

On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.

Published 27-Jun-2013
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: archaeology, Calder Valley, expeditions, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, On the Moor (book), the Moor, Thomas Browne, W.G. Sebald

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