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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…
No comments. 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…
No comments. 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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