February 2021 Archives

Up close and personal: voices from the Great War, week by week | The Spectator

Extracts from hundreds of letters and diaries provide moving testimony to the dignity and selfless courage of all nationalities involved

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“Help for my junior doctors isn’t there”: Dr Hilali Noordeen on burnout in the NHS

Three years ago, spinal surgeon Hilali Noordeen’s eldest son told his father he was considering becoming a doctor. Rather than sitting his 15-year-old down for a parental chat about prospects, Noordeen decided to write him a series of letters. Illuminating the lengthy path to and through the profess…

www.newstatesman.com

How to recreate the wildflower meadows of Highclere Castle

The Earl of Carnarvon talks through the process of creating the wildflower meadow at Highclere Castle, better know to many as Downton Abbey.

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Prince Charles’s brainwave to carpet nation with majestic wildflowers

Coronation Meadows, an idea by Prince Charles, saw the wildflower meadow reintroduced to the British countryside to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation.

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Royal photographer celebrates the Queen’s Coronation Meadows in all their midsummer glory

Hugo Rittson Thomas chronicles the ‘Wildflowers for the Queen’ that span the UK’s meadows in an exhilarating new book for wild plant conservation charity, Plantlife

Date: February 2021

‘As We Were’ by David Hargreaves in The Spectator

Dr Hilali Noordeen, author of ‘Letters to a Young Doctor’, in the New Statesman

House & garden article featuring Hugo Rittson Thomas’s ‘Wildflowers for the Queen’

‘Wildflowers for the Queen’ by Hugo Rittson Thomas in the Daily Mail

‘Wildflowers for the Queen’ by Hugo Rittson Thomas in Tatler

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