edited by Bruce Tremayne and Ann Lackie (Lingard) Published by The Otmoor Group, 2001; ISBN 0-9539682-0-0 This is a book about Otmoor, a unique area just North-West of Oxford. Bruce Tremayne, who initiated the project, wrote in 2000: ‘It is rare indeed in lowland Briain at the turn of the second millennium to find an […]
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In Lifetimes, the participants and scientists engaged in the Lothian Birth Cohort Studies tell us about their lives. This was the outcome of a project I was engaged with in Edinburgh – and more details are under Projects. Although the project has ended, the book is still available as an ebook.
ISBN 978-1-84396-398-1 Littoralis Press, £3.99 2nd edition 2016; now available as an ebook ‘Love, lust, pottery and fossils’ – and the wild northern coasts and moors of Sutherland … Set in the far North of Scotland, this is a modern story of the love of two very different men for local artist and potter […]
“An anemone of medium size may be safely sent by post in a small tin-cannister, without water, but with a small tuft of damp sea-weed, rag, or blotting-paper, to maintain a moist atmosphere around the animal …” The Victorian naturalist Philip Henry Gosse advertised thus for specimens of sea-anemones and corals to be sent to […]
When Matt Myers decides to spend the summer with his mother at the Shell House in Cornwall, he little guesses that he is about to step into the minefield of his family’s past and recent history … Anne Church, a young Victorian; Matt, art student; Hazel Myers, his mother; malacologist and parasitologist, Elizabeth Wilson: their […]
“Where was the truth? Madeleine asked the African violet on the window-sill. She was no longer sure. The vile dog Bob had been dead for years but he would have lied in any case, had he been able. ..” Three characters: Ruth pulls the old man’s bag open and stares “into the cat’s unblinking eyes. […]
From 2010-2011 I was a ‘Bright Ideas’ Visiting Fellow at the European Genomics Forum (EGF), University of Edinburgh. My aim was to explore and write factual or fictional accounts of some of the people whose tissues and organs came to be publicly exhibited in the Surgeons’ Hall Museum, Edinburgh. As a contrast to these stories […]
From the Tell Them Our Stories project , Surgeons’ Hall Museum’ Andrew leant on the cairn and and stared out at the view. From the top of Law Hill it is possible to see the River Tay where it broadens out by the McInnes Banks; the town of Dundee is just visible to the North-East, […]
From the Tell Them Our Stories project, Surgeons’ Hall Museum. “Johnnie!” I drop the gathered stalks at Mary’s cry and look round. John is staggering across the stubble towards the cart. Mary is sitting in the shade, she’s holding my Willie back by his arm, but she’s nursing a babe of her own and […]
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