Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager Stag beetles in garden (c) Sarah Wygas This spring Londoners have helped protect each other by curtailing our daily travels to stop the spread of the coronavirus. This has also, necessarily, affected our trips to visit greenspaces...
David Allen, London Natural History Society and GiGL Volunteer Place has been an integral part of natural history observations from the very beginning. Authors have described the natural history of their parish, their town or their county often in great detail. But...
David Allen, GiGL Volunteer In 2011, I wrote about my involvement with the ornithology records of the London Natural History Society, noting that I had first crossed their path some twenty years before that. Five years on, the nature of the project has changed, but...
Nathalie Mahieu When I was a kid and teenager, I spent a lot of time looking for fossils, fungi and berries. It didn’t occur to me at the time to try and put a label on everything, beyond whether it was useful or edible. It was much later that I became interested in...
Helen Baker, LNHS President The London Natural History Society’s (LNHS) remit is the study and recording of natural history, archaeology and other kindred subjects especially within twenty miles of St Paul’s Cathedral, the promotion of scientific investigations, the...