We are now rolling-out a second seres of pages. These use an updated style sheet and the HTML is structured in a way which should improve the way they are displayed on mobile devices. A "test-card" is available from the News menu which will give examples of most of the display structures used in Natstand pages. This page will be updated whenever something new is tried.

I've just completed a fundamental overhaul of the underlying content management system which should make it easier to keep the pages up-to-date and to add new content. Superficially there should be little change to the layout of the pages but the HTML code will be more suited to modern systems and be better indexed by search engines.

The site has been given a tidy-up to impose a consistent navigation and a more uniform look to the pages.

On the 200th anniversary of its discovery, a page outlining the excavation of the Kirkdale cave and an evaluation of the roles played by various local and national characters. It can be accessed from the "Archives" menu.

The whole site has now been re-written to be compliant with the HTML5 standard. It is hoped that this will ensure that the pages are rendered more consistently, particularly on mobile devices, and that they will be better indexed by the major search engines.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library now provides long runs of important Natural History journals, many of which printed obituaries containing interesting and useful biographical information. We have now implemented a page of links to this material. For the next few weeks we will be concentrating on The naturalist, The Journal of botany and The entomologist but would be interested to hear of other journals which users may consider important.

The website has now been live for two weeks, over which period we have tweaked the structure and format in line with our own experience and comments by others; we do not anticipate any more major changes to the site. We will now concentrate on formatting and mounting the material we have previously gathered.

During the initial stages we intend to concentrate on Victorian botanists/geologists and would be interested to hear from anyone who has material that they would like to make more widely available.

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Natstand website.

This years AGM was held beneath the Kirkdale cave on the 200th anniversary of the discovery of its amazing fauna.

The Natstand annual excursion, August 2019.

The new Chairman outlines his plans for the coming year, July 2020.