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How Etta Lemon Helped Save the Birds

In the United Kingdom, Etta Lemon campaigned for 50 years against the slaughter of birds for elaborate fashion.

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How Etta saved the birds from the 'murderous millinery' trend sweeping London throughout 1891

by Tessa Boase (Aurum £9.99, 320 pp) Sitting in a London church in 1887, a young woman gazed over the congregation and the sea of elegant ladies’ hats. In her notebook, she jotted down the names of the birds whose feathers decorated those hats swallows, robins, blue tits, chaffinches, hummingbirds and even eagles and herons. Just as she did every week, she would write to each of the hat wearers, calmly describing the slaughter of the birds who had ended up as their fashion accessories. Today, her name is almost entirely forgotten. Yet, as this beguiling book shows, Etta Lemon is one of the great heroines of British nature conservation. Her long and doughty campaign against ‘murderous millinery’ led to the founding of the Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds (RSPB) and saved millions of birds.

Letters: The Government's Covid restrictions are hopelessly out of date

2 July 2021 • 12:01am Music and hospitality industry employees walk along a street in London during a Freedom to Dance march Credit: Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images SIR – My wife, who like me is double-jabbed, went to watch our grandson swim. She was unknowingly in the proximity of someone who tested positive for Covid, and three days later she was told by the NHS to self-isolate. We immediately took lateral flow tests, which were negative, and three days later did so again – also negative. Self-isolation for 10 days after exposure, under threat of a fine for non-compliance, was inappropriate. The test-and-trace rules came into force almost a year ago, before the successful vaccine programme. They are out of date and restrict sensible adults who have their own best interests at heart in avoiding Covid. They must change.