Drawn to the Lakes
She became an active campaigner for conservation, buying up large areas of land in her beloved Lake District
Today, conservation is a subject that is taken very seriously. We have national parks protecting areas of biodiversity, laws that forbid or manage certain behaviours, and long-term projects aimed to not only protect our landscapes and wildlife, but in many cases restore them to their natural state.
This was not the case in Beatrix Potter’s time. Born in 1866 into an upper-middle-class household, in London’s Kensington, the circles in which she moved – at least for the first half of her life – were more concerned with displaying the natural world in their homes (the
