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“The genteel image of the aristocracy today, epitomised in costume dramas and tea and cakes in country houses, masks an early history that was written in blood.”p.77
— Dec 18, 2025 06:52AM
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Miranda Willis
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“Foxes, stoats, weasels and other natural predators of grouse are shot or caught in traps. Even beautiful mountain hares are exterminated, because the ticks they carry can spread disease to grouse.” P. 97
Is this part of the reason why predator reintroduction in England is near nonexistent? The threat it poses to the hunting practices of the elite?
— Dec 18, 2025 07:39AM
Is this part of the reason why predator reintroduction in England is near nonexistent? The threat it poses to the hunting practices of the elite?
Miranda Willis
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Ownership is assumed or obscured which mars power dynamics. But who took land from the Church? The crown gave it to noble families or vicars sold it and it was used for development hence the commonly named “Glebe Close”. But- church still a vast land owner.
— Dec 16, 2025 03:59PM
