Author: Lee Raye

Dr Lee Raye is an associate lecturer at the Open University and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. They specialise in the history of wild animals and plants in pre-industrial Britain and Ireland. Working on the transition between history and nature, Dr Raye has collected historical British records of tree frogs for The Herpetological Journal, outlined the last traces of wild lynxes for Mammal Communications, and unearthed the naturalist contributions of the Jacobite countess, Anne of Erroll for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Their translation of Robert Sibbald’s seventeenth century work The Wild Plants of Scotland and The Animals of Scotland was published in 2020. You can follow them on Twitter @Leafy History.