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MC/13 - CDs, Journalism, Correspondence

Reference code
MC/13
Level of description
File
Title
CDs, Journalism, Correspondence
Date/s
1994-2010
Quantity & Format
1 box Mixed
Scope and content
Letter, Guy Abbott to MC, 4/2/99.

CDs
Early draft of the whole of 'Crow Country'. Also files on 'A Tiger in the Sand' and 'Birds and People' (CD-R). [Digitally Preserved].
Brian Garfield’s CD of MC’s entire private archive on Richard Meinertzhagen. (CD). [Digitally preserved].
Early back up of 'Birds and People' intended for agent Gill Coleridge (CD-R). [No data found on CD].

ASSORTED JOURNALISM, 1994-2008
Flights of passage (birdwatching; Isles of Scilly), MC. Guardian Weekend, 16/9/95. [Press-cutting].
Wensum Valley – undiscovered Norfolk, MC. Suffolk and Norfolk Life, December 1995. [Journal article].
Farewell, blythe spirit? (Skylarks), MC. Guardian Weekly, 19/5/96. [Press-cutting].
The fat of the land, MC. (Halvergate, Norfolk). Guardian Weekly, 2/6/96. [Press-cutting].
CPRE working with the English farmer, MC. Suffolk and Norfolk Life, vol. VIII, no.55, October 1996. [Journal article].
Hieroglyphs (beached whales), MC. Suffolk & Norfolk Life, September 1997. [Journal article].
African Bird Club, MC. Alula, 1/1998. [Whole journal and loose article].
A lighter shade of bird (albinos), MC. Bird Watching, pp. 30-34, January 1998 [Whole journal and article].
Black magic (corvids), MC. Bird Watching, pp. 6-10, March 1998. [Journal article].
A wildlife spectacular: the Falkland Islands, MC. Limosa News, p. 3 April 1998. [Newsletter].
The Last Tasmanian, MC. Independent on Sunday, 26/4/98. [Whole magazine and press-cutting].
Heart of darkness (owls), MC. Bird Watching, June 1998. [Journal article].
Sands of time (Brecklands of Norfolk and Suffolk), MC. Bird Watching, July 1998. [Journal article].
Dive, dive, dive (birds taking the plunge), MC. Bird Watching, September 1998. [Journal article].
Modern life has hit bird numbers, MC. Eastern Daily Press, 23/4/99. [Press-cutting].
Sticks and stones … (nest building), MC. Bird Watching, pp. 22-30, August 1999. [Journal article].
Roll on Rutland (bird fair), MC. Bird Watching, p. 99, August 1999. [Journal article].
Norfolk at close quarters (bird artist James McCallum), MC. Bird Watching, August 1999. [Journal article].
Africa: a challenge to birders, MC. Travel News Namibia, pp. 22-23, October 1999. [Whole journal].
Back to life (reintroductions of plants and animals: red kite, beaver, butterflies, pasque flower), MC. Natural World, no. 57. Winter 1999. [Whole magazine].
Where are the songbirds? MC. Eastern Daily Press Magazine, November 1999. [Journal article].
He shoots, he saves (gamekeeping and wild birds), MC. Bird Watching, January 2000. [Journal article].
Myth, mystery and the meaning of birdlife, MC. Eastern Daily Press magazine, 22/1/00. [Whole journal].
Fish out of water? Not sculptor Mike, MC (sculptor Mike Rhodes). Eastern Daily Press, 24/5/00. [Press-cutting].
Out of North Africa, MC. Bird Watching, September 2000. [Journal article].
Owls and traditional culture in Africa, MC and Heimo Mikkola. Tyto (journal of the International Owl Society), vol.5, issue 4, pp. 174-184, December 2000. [Whole journal].
Birds Britannica (interview with MC). Birds. RSPB, pp. 85-88. Spring 2001. [Whole journal].
Confessions of a twitcher, MC. The Times, 28/7/01. [Press-cutting].
The magic of Cley, MC. Tern. Wildlife Norfolk Trust, p.3, Summer 2001. [Journal article].
A breed apart (Birders: Tales of a Tribe), MC. Bird watching, pp. 85-87, August 2001. [Journal article].
Ruffled feathers (birdwatchers), MC. Guardian, 28/11/01. [Draft and press-cutting].
Point/counterpoint. Future challenges in Africa, MC. Birding: American Birding Association, vol.34. no.3, June 2002. [Whole journal].
My hunt for Scotland’s little tiger (wildlife on the remote Ardnamurchan Peninsular), MC. The Times, 27/7/02. [Press-cutting].
My goblin on acid (Leache’s Petrel and St Kilda), MC. The Times, 2/11/02. [Press-cutting].
Shake your tail feather (tales, myths, superstition), MC. The Times 24/7/03. [Press-cutting and online print].
Rhapsody in black (Tibetan throat-singers in an Anglesey wood), MC. The Times, 10/1/04. [Press-cutting].
Ready for take-off (comeback of the common crane), MC. The Times, 14/2/04. [Press-cutting].
In for the kill (eagles shot and poisoned in the Scottish glans), MC. The Times, 28/2/04. [Press-cutting].
The dirty dozen (the crime of nest collecting), MC. The Times, 5/6/04. [Press-cutting].
The insect: man’s best friend, MC. The Times, 10/7/04. [Press-cutting].
No need to flap (counting swans on the Thames), MC. The Times, 31/7/04. [Press-cutting].
Oak takes wing (primeval wood preserved in peat bog), MC. The Times, 7/8/04. [Press-cutting].
The fall of the wild (Britain’s natural habitat ruined by intensive farming), MC. The Times, 21/8/04. [Press-cutting].
Does this bird fit the bill? (slender-billed curlew), MC. The Times, 9/10/04. [Press-cutting].
Tu-whit where? (native owls), MC. The Times, 30/10/04. [Press-cutting].
Return of the waterlands (Cambridgeshire fens), MC. The Times, 27/11/04. [Press-cutting].
Beetles are back on top of the crops, MC. The Times, 4/12/04. [Press-cutting].
Neotropical birding in the tropics, by MC and David Tipling, 29/04/08. [Draft article].
Ospreys in the UK (MC interviews Mike Everett). Birds, pp.32-38, [20--?] [Journal article].
Did you feel the ship move just now? (whales), MC. The Times, [20--?]. [Press-cutting].
Cra Wid’s army of the night (rooks), MC. The Times, [20--?]. [Press-cutting].
Paradise Lost (farmland species under threat), MC. Natural World, [20--?]. [Journal article].
Lose yourself in a safari’s animal magic, MC. Bird Watching Magazine, [20--?]. [Whole magazine].
Whalesong (marine conservation), MC. Natural World, [20--?]. [Journal article].

OTHER
The twitchers (MS copy of a poem), undated.
Programme of writing courses at the National Writers’ Centre for Wales. Writing and Nature: wildlife into words, MC and Kathleen Jamie, 2007. [Printed ephemera].

CORRESPONDENCE, 1994-2010
Primarily letters addressed to MC.
Joan Gibbs (Macclesfield Silk Heritage) (re amateur birdman Brian Hodgson), 8/10/94.
John Cryer (Wells Festival of Literature), 30/5/04.
David Lyon (Mid-Thorngate Society) to MC (re Richard Meinertzhagen), 31/10/05 and 17/11/06.
Julian Mitchell (Mid-Thorngate Society) (re Richard Meinertzhagen talk), 25/11/06.
Stephen R. Martin (Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society) (re MC’s talks), 11/5/07.
Arvon Foundation Tutors contract, 2008.
Heather Tyas (Museum of Garden History) (re talk by MC), 14/4/08.
Guy Mannes Abbott, 4/2/99.
Peter Tolhurst (Black Dog Books) (re permission to include quotations from Crow Country), 6/7/09.
Peter Crix (Literary Prize Committee, Ipswich Institute) (re MC’s judging of the 2011 award), 2010.
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