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Bournemouth Writing Festival 2025
May 1, 2025
Bournemouth Writing Festival 2025
May 1, 2025
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May 1, 2025
Not More Gnomes shortlisted and available in an anthology
Oct 3, 2024
Not More Gnomes shortlisted and available in an anthology
Oct 3, 2024
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Oct 3, 2024
Environment Anthology
Aug 1, 2024
Environment Anthology
Aug 1, 2024

Night Walk, by Rachel Henson, features in the latest anthology from Creative Mind: Environment - Anthology of Poetry and Prose.

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Aug 1, 2024
Shaftesbury Book Festival
Mar 18, 2024
Shaftesbury Book Festival
Mar 18, 2024
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Mar 18, 2024
The Guinea Pigs have made it into Reader’s Digest…
Feb 26, 2024
The Guinea Pigs have made it into Reader’s Digest…
Feb 26, 2024
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Feb 26, 2024
Event: Creative Non-Fiction Meet-up
Jan 25, 2024
Event: Creative Non-Fiction Meet-up
Jan 25, 2024

Rachel Henson is hosting the Creative Non-Fiction Genre Breakfast for the Bournemouth Writing Festival

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Jan 25, 2024
Going to the Chapel… Great British Life
Oct 20, 2023
Going to the Chapel… Great British Life
Oct 20, 2023
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Oct 20, 2023
Saving Sea Turtles - Reader’s Digest
Oct 20, 2023
Saving Sea Turtles - Reader’s Digest
Oct 20, 2023
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Oct 20, 2023
Primates Helping Primates - Persephone People
Jul 11, 2023
Primates Helping Primates - Persephone People
Jul 11, 2023

Neotropical Primate Conservation work hard to protect South America’s Forests. Find out more in Rachel Henson’s article for Persephone People.

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Jul 11, 2023
The Oldest Zoo in the World - Reader’s Digest
Jul 11, 2023
The Oldest Zoo in the World - Reader’s Digest
Jul 11, 2023

Rachel Henson takes a look at the world’s oldest zoo for Reader’s Digest magazine

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Jul 11, 2023
Abandon your resolutions
Jan 13, 2023
Abandon your resolutions
Jan 13, 2023

Already abandoned your New Year’s resolutions? Don’t worry, so have I, and I think that’s okay.

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Jan 13, 2023
Understanding Guinea Pigs - Pet Life Mag
Oct 14, 2022
Understanding Guinea Pigs - Pet Life Mag
Oct 14, 2022
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Oct 14, 2022
Dorset Magazine - Dorset’s Treasured House
Aug 20, 2022
Dorset Magazine - Dorset’s Treasured House
Aug 20, 2022

Rachel Henson looks at the history of Kingston Lacy House and the interesting characters who lived in it before Henry John Ralph Bankes left the Bankes Estate to the National Trust forty years ago.

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Aug 20, 2022
Walking Alone in Nature - Persephone People
May 11, 2022
Walking Alone in Nature - Persephone People
May 11, 2022

The natural world is full of challenge and change, but those elements are also logical and necessary, unlike so many of the things to worry about in the Anthropocene.

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May 11, 2022
Out There
Mar 7, 2022
Out There
Mar 7, 2022

Out There is an anthology of work by alumni of Bath Spa University’s Nature and Travel Writing MA.

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Mar 7, 2022
The Bradt New Travel Writer of the Year 2022
Feb 1, 2022
The Bradt New Travel Writer of the Year 2022
Feb 1, 2022

I am delighted to be able to say that I have made the longlist for the Bradt New Travel Writer of the Year 2022 competition.

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Feb 1, 2022
How to Keep Your Guinea Pigs Busy - Pet Life Magazine
Dec 30, 2021
How to Keep Your Guinea Pigs Busy - Pet Life Magazine
Dec 30, 2021

Guinea pig enrichment is important for their wellbeing and meeting their captive care needs.

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Dec 30, 2021
How to Embrace Winter: Seven Things to make you Cheerful Even When it’s Grey Outside
Nov 22, 2021
How to Embrace Winter: Seven Things to make you Cheerful Even When it’s Grey Outside
Nov 22, 2021

It seems like only last month that I was still wearing shorts to work, desperately clinging to the last few rays of weak summer sunshine.

“It can’t be autumn yet…”

It was. Now even that has slunk away and, as leaves crunch under foot, there’s a chill in the air on my walks from the village.

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Nov 22, 2021
Monkey in the City
Apr 28, 2021
Monkey in the City
Apr 28, 2021
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Apr 28, 2021
Amable’s Cat
Apr 12, 2021
Amable’s Cat
Apr 12, 2021
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Apr 12, 2021
The Village is Alive
Apr 12, 2021
The Village is Alive
Apr 12, 2021
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Apr 12, 2021
Chiffchaff
Apr 12, 2021
Chiffchaff
Apr 12, 2021
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Apr 12, 2021
Wildcat - Scottish Mountaineer Magazine
Apr 12, 2021
Wildcat - Scottish Mountaineer Magazine
Apr 12, 2021
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Apr 12, 2021
Sacred Valley Train
Apr 12, 2021
Sacred Valley Train
Apr 12, 2021
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Apr 12, 2021
Reflections
Apr 10, 2021
Reflections
Apr 10, 2021
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Apr 10, 2021
RSPB Bempton Cliffs at 50 - Dalesman Magazine
Apr 1, 2021
RSPB Bempton Cliffs at 50 - Dalesman Magazine
Apr 1, 2021
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Apr 1, 2021
Not My President
Nov 20, 2020
Not My President
Nov 20, 2020
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Nov 20, 2020
Seabirds at Bempton
Oct 22, 2020
Seabirds at Bempton
Oct 22, 2020
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Oct 22, 2020

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