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Fred Kitchen
FRED KITCHEN (1890 - 1969) was was born in Sherwood Forest in 1890 to a Methodist family. He grew up on the Sandbeck Estate, where his father worked as a cowman for Earl of Scarbrough.…![]()
Sophia Kingshill
SOPHIA KINGSHILL is co-author of The Lore of Scotland and The Fabled Coast, an examination of British and Irish sea legends, both written in collaboration with the late Jennifer Westwood. Her interest…![]()
Jay Griffiths
JAY GRIFFITHS is author of Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time, Wild: An Elemental Journey and Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape and A Love Letter from a Stray Moon. She…![]()
W.G. Hoskins
WILLIAM GEORGE HOSKINS (1908 - 1992) was born in Exeter, the son of a baker. He won a scholarship to Hele’s School and later studied at the University of Exeter. In 1931…![]()
Barbara Jones
BARBARA JONES (1912-1978) was born in Croydon, Surrey, where her family ran a high street saddlery. She studied at the Croydon School of Art and the Royal College of Art, in the…![]()
Robert Gibbings
ROBERT GIBBINGS (1889 - 1958) was born in Kinsale, County Cork, the son of a clergyman. He studied medicine at University College Cork before overcoming opposition from his parents to study art,…![]()
Richard Jefferies
RICHARD JEFFERIES was born at Coate, now a Swindon suburb, where his family had a smallholding. His father was passionate about nature but an unsuccessful farmer, and Jefferies’ late childhood was marred…![]()
Richard Mabey
RICHARD MABEY is the godfather of contemporary nature writing and has authored some forty books, including Food for Free, the groundbreaking Flora Britannica and The Unofficial Countryside, Beechcombings, The Cabaret of Plants, and…![]()
Clare Leighton
CLARE LEIGHTON (1898 - 1989) was born in London and studied at Brighton, Slade and Central schools of art. Travel in Europe nurtured an empathy for rural workers and their culture, reflected…![]()
R.M. Lockley
RONALD MATHIAS LOCKLEY (1903 - 2000) was born in Whitchurch, a Cardiff suburb, where his childhood was spent in the woods and wetlands around the old Glamorganshire Canal. After leaving school he…![]()
Gavin Maxwell
GAVIN MAXWELL (1914 - 1969) was born and raised in Scotland – a childhood he later wrote about in The House of Elrig (1965). After Oxford University and wartime service he bought…![]()
W.H. Hudson
W.H. HUDSON (1841 - 1922) William Henry Hudson was born in Argentina, son of Anglo-American settlers. As a youth he spent much time wandering alone in the Pampas, studying its wildlife and…
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