Beekeeping: A Novice's Guide

by David Wootton

This is a Colour Photograph lead book for the Novice Bee Keeper. It takes the beginner through their first two years of keeping bees. Explaining the hive, how it works, and constructing a National hive and frames. Chapters also cover the equipment you will need and where best to place your hive. It also covers the life cycle of the honey bee, how to get your first bees, doing inspections, collecting swarms through to wintering your bees. Finally covering how to extract honey and selling it. The book also has a glossary of bee keeping terms useful list of website links and a Colour Pollen Guide.

185 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

MA, PhD (Cantab), FRHistS

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History. He works on the intellectual and cultural history of the English speaking countries, Italy, and France, 1500-1800. He is currently writing a book entitled Power, Pleasure and Profit based on his Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2014. His most recent book is The Invention of Science, published by Allen Lane.

In 2016 he will give the annual Besterman Lecture at the University of Oxford.

He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, and has held positions in history and politics at four British and four Canadian universities, and visiting postions in the US, before coming to York.