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The Gannets of Grasshom, Part 10: Aftermath – a Happy Ending?
The tenth and final episode of the remarkable history of the Gannets of Grassholm reflects on how the network of…
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The Gannets of Grassholm, Part 9: Fallout – Thousands More Dead Birds
After the perpetrators of the Grassholm gannet massacre of 1890 were identified as ‘officers and gentlemen’ and tried in a…
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The Gannets of Grassholm, Part 8: Investigation, Trial – and Punishment?
After the perpetrators of the Grassholm gannet massacre of 1890 were identified as ‘officers and gentlemen’ and possibly even a…
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The Gannets of Grassholm, Part 7: Officers and Gentlemen – the perpetrators revealed
Howell Harris It is time to make the acquaintance of our other principal characters, the officers who committed the crimes…
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The Gannets of of Grassholm, Part 6: Loving and Killing – Victorians and Bird Protection
Howell Harris This week’s episode is different in character from all of those that have preceded it, and all that…
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The Gannets of Grassholm, Part 5: The Massacre Becomes a Cause Célèbre
Howell Harris How and why did the slaughter of a few dozen seabirds and the taking or smashing of a…
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The Gannets of Grassholm, Part 4: The Whit Monday Massacre, 26 May 1890
Howell Harris Grassholm slumbered quietly for centuries on its outer edge of Wales. Recent surveys and excavations confirm that the…
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The Gannets of Grassholm, Part 3: The World Comes to the Pembrokeshire Bird-Islands, Sunday 8 July 1934
Howell Harris In July 1934 the International Ornithological Congress, one of the oldest international scientific meetings in the world, was…
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