Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
Category: BLOGS by guest authors
Guest blog – Midhope track, a final resolution by Bob Berzins
Bob Berzins is a campaigner and activist. His previous guests blogs here all focus on the management, or mismanagement, of upland areas such as the Peak District, Walshaw Moor and the North York Moors. See also his novels Snared and The Last Crow. Of all the environmental damage found on grouse shooting moors, road building…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 33 by John Page and Nick MacKinnon
John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play cricket left-handed “ ’cos it flummoxes t’ bowler, and buggers up t’ field.” He went to university in London and Leeds, and enjoyed (most of the time) attempting to teach young people that there’s a big wide world beyond…
Guest blog – Shrine to a Reluctant Hero (Part 2) by Conor Mark Jameson
Conor Mark Jameson worked in conservation all of his career and now lives and writes in west Norfolk. He is also the author of Silent Spring Revisited (reviewed here), Looking for the Goshawk (reviewed here), and Shrewdunnit (a collection of his feature articles, (reviewed here)). Conor’s biography Finding W. H. Hudson – The Writer…
Guest blog – Shrine to a Reluctant Hero (Part 1) by Conor Mark Jameson
Conor Mark Jameson worked in conservation all of his career and now lives and writes in west Norfolk. He is also the author of Silent Spring Revisited (reviewed here), Looking for the Goshawk (reviewed here), and Shrewdunnit (a collection of his feature articles, (reviewed here)). Conor’s biography Finding W. H. Hudson – The Writer…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 42 Calderdale Energy Park by Nick MacKinnon
Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 38 by Kate Haslegrave
Kate is a photographer and has lived in Haworth for the past 20 years. She has been walking up on the moors for the past 10 years or so and one thing she has come to learn is that no two days out on the moors are ever the same. She has been blogging…
Guest blog – The Great Beaver Betrayal by Tom Bowser
Tom Bowser is the owner of Argaty, a working farm based on the Braes of Doune in central Scotland, which aims to produce food in an environmentally sensitive manner and to make a home for nature. Tom is author of A Sky Full of Kites: a rewilding story (reviewed on this blog) and the forthcoming…
Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 13 by Nick MacKinnon
Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
Guest blog – HS2’s Badly Behaved Little Brother by Euan Dunn
Dr Euan Dunn MBE is an ecologist who lives in Great Eversden near Cambridge. For 25 years he led on developing marine conservation policy for the RSPB and was awarded the Society’s medal in 2024. Not long after retirement he turned his attention from sea to land to assist Cambridge Approaches – click here –…