At the Society for the Protection of Birds’ sixth annual general meeting in 1896, Miss Julia Andrews, a fifty-eight year old spinster and local secretary for the Society’s branch in Teddington, rose to ask a very uncomfortable question to all the good and the great – as well as the more middling sort such as […]
I’m beginning to wonder if Mark Avery has even risen from his reading chair for the past fortnight as he posted three new book reviews to his blog this Sunday: Tessa Boase’s new “Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather,” Seán Lysaght’s “Eagle Country,” and an updated and reissued edition of David Lack’s classic 1956 work “Swifts in a Tower.”