Government stop £1.2million photo albums by English ornithologist John Gould being sold overseas

Born in Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast in 1804, John Gould was brought up in Surrey and later Windsor, where his father was a gardener at the monarch’s castle. Gould taught himself taxidermy – the practice of preserving an animal’s body by stuffing or mounting – from an early age.  In 1824, he moved … Read more

Government stop £1.2million photo albums by English ornithologist John Gould being sold overseas

Born in Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast in 1804, John Gould was brought up in Surrey and later Windsor, where his father was a gardener at the monarch’s castle. Gould taught himself taxidermy – the practice of preserving an animal’s body by stuffing or mounting – from an early age.  In 1824, he moved … Read more