Scotland's Secret Rainforest
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Exploring the murky past and future of Scotland's rare temperate rainforests.
Further Reading:
Guy Shrubsole - The Lost Rainforests of Britain: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-lost-rainforests-of-britain-guy-shrubsole?variant=41021176053794
British Museum - Celts: https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/who-were-celts
Nat Geo - Great Wood: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/scotlands-great-wood-was-the-legendary-forest-real
Wordsworth - Guide to the Lakes: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/guide-to-the-lakes-9780198848097?cc=us&lang=en&
Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Hound-of-the-Baskervilles/Arthur-Conan-Doyle/Aladdin-Classics/9780689835711
British Museum - Prehistoric Britain: https://www.britishmuseum.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/visit-resource_prehistoric-britain-KS2.pdf
Robert Moor - On Trails: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-Trails/Robert-Moor/9781476739236
Britannica - Highland Clearances: https://www.britannica.com/event/Highland-Clearances
Nat Geo - Rewilding: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/scotland-could-become-first-rewilded-nation-what-does-that-mean?loggedin=true&rnd=1708999292376
Scottish Geographical Journal - Rewilding: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702541.2012.666261?casa_token=8G73F7W5idoAAAAA%3AiNUGlE6VdWaaF_YRUZrkbjTWhMYRBR-JD-oEns2XxfxQIcul5G9lVORCwQRTYVBty1GwTJhlnO4&
Illustrations:
Druids: https://bit.ly/3IMi9x1
Sidney Richard Percy - On the road to Loch Turret, Crieff: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Richard_Percy_-_On_the_road_to_Loch_Turret,_Crieff_(1868).jpg
James Giles - A View of Lochnagar: https://www.rct.uk/collection/405006/a-view-of-lochnagar
Horatio McCulloch - A View of Loch Lomond: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McCulloch_Horatio_Loch_Lomond.jpg?uselang=en#Licensing
William Beattie Brown - Coire-na-Faireamh in Applecross Deer Forest Ross-shire: https://www.royalscottishacademy.org/artists/451-william-beattie-brown-rsa/installation_shots/
Sidney Richard Percy - Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye, Scotland: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sidney_Richard_Percy_Skye_1874.jpg
Peter Graham - Wandering Shadows: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/4982/wandering-shadows
Royal Hunt: https://bit.ly/497spus
Curtis's Botanical Magazine - Rhododendron: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhododendron_harrovianum_136-8309.jpg
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Highland Family: https://bit.ly/43vCe4b
Smokestacks: https://bit.ly/3TLCglb
State Library Victoria - Fern Gatherers: https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/YLV1048897/Fern-Gatherers
Henry Bradbury - The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-97ad-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Charles Sillem Lidderdale - The fern gatherer: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Sillem_Lidderdale_The_fern_gatherer_1877.jpg?uselang=en#Licensing
Photos:
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2021644421/
https://www.loc.gov/item/2021644399/
https://www.loc.gov/item/95514008/
https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a11256/
https://www.loc.gov/item/2018664294/
https://www.loc.gov/item/2018653431/
Hunting Estates: https://bit.ly/43AwmXG
https://bit.ly/4ag4cn2
https://bit.ly/3TujehT
https://bit.ly/3Voxuvm
Railroads:
https://bit.ly/49aB0fY
https://bit.ly/3VsMxUU
https://bit.ly/4cse6DJ
Fern Vase: https://bit.ly/4am4R65
Oxford Museum of Natural History: https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/learn-culture-heritage-and-society
Maps/Graphics:
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668664/
Lost Rainforests of Britain: https://map.lostrainforestsofbritain.org/
Archival Articles:
Where to Find Ferns: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-newcastle-weekly-courant/142969023/
Collecting Ferns: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hampshire-advertiser/142968981/
Fern Paradise: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-derby-mercury/142969074/
Ferns and Fern Culture: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-newcastle-weekly-courant/142969131/
0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Sponsor
2:44 - Ecology
5:59 - Culture
8:22 - History
13:30 - Rewilding
16:04 - Outro
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