Nature at Home

Nature at Home

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...
Living History

Living History

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...
Joy of Recording

Joy of Recording

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...
LNHS Collaborations

LNHS Collaborations

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...