A sizeable portion of this past fortnight’s noteworthy natural history book podcasts have a decidedly medieval flavour to them.
Noteworthy Podcasts (Fortnight Ending 12 September 2025)
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Beastly Britain
In her recently published book “Beastly Britain; An Animal History,” Prof. Karen R. Jones delights her readers with recountings of the natural as well as social, folkloric, literary, and even linguistic histories of ten iconic British animal species.
Born of Fire and Rain
While I’ve reviewed and reported on more books than I can reliably count that present the natural history of many a geographic area, I’ve not previously had the pleasure to be able to do so about one that presents such information about the place that I’ve called home for approaching three score years – not, at least, until the recent arrival upon my desk of Dr. M. L. Herring’s “Born of Fire and Rain; Journey into a Pacific Coastal Forest.”
Stone Circles; A Field Guide
In their recently published book “Stone Circles; A Field Guide,” Prof. Colin Richards and Prof. Vicki Cummings present an extensively researched, very detailed, highly informative presentation of 344 stone circle sites across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, and the Republic of Ireland.