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BIRD GARDENING – HOW DID IT START?
Knight the pioneer: How did ‘bird gardening’ become established in British life? Simon King reveals its origins in the ideas and writing of the famous WW2 spy catcher – none other than Maxwell Knight. The practice of putting out food for birds in gardens is more popular now than ever before, with more than half…
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Camberley Natural History Society’s Exhibition at Surrey Heath Museum – Photo blog
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How did ‘bird gardening’ become established in British life?
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Maxwell Knight’s cabinet featured in Cage & Aviary Birds publication:
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New Statesman: Cuckoos, le Carré, and conservation: the forgotten files of the real-life “M”
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The Guardian: Spectre of destruction: the lost manuscript of the real-life ‘M’
“Breaking open a locked cabinet belonging to Maxwell Knight, naturalist and spy, yields not Top Secret documents but a passionate scientific plea…” – Read Simon King’s article in the Guardian to learn more about the cabinet’s contents and the real-life M’s unpublished manuscript, The Frightened Face of Nature (28 October, 2015). Copyright: see acknowledgements
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M’s (Maxwell Knight) Spectre: The Frightened Face of Nature
During the 1960s Maxwell Knight – the real-life “M” – was working on a manuscript entitled The Frightened Face of Nature, snatching brief moments to record his thoughts on how man had treated nature so unfairly for the first fifty years of the twentieth century. The manuscript documented Knight’s greatest fears that, time was running…
