Natural History

Placing the Platypus

Defying categorisation since its discovery, was the platypus a mammal, a reptile, or something else? 

A Feather in her Cap

A global trade in feathers, with London at its heart, saw hundreds of millions of birds killed every year. Emily Williamson waged a long and furious campaign against it.

Writ in Water

A kaleidoscopic tour of the Volga and the history of the people who have resided by it.