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225 YEARS OF LETTS – THE CHARLES LETTS YEARS
This year is the 225th anniversary of Letts. We are celebrating this extraordinary milestone with a series of articles (and events) – from the early years right up to today. The third article looks at the transition to the third and fourth generation of the family business – run by Charles Letts...
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LETTS GROUP LAUNCH NEW GREENTECH VENTURE
The family that invented the commercial diary 200 years ago have launched an ambitious new greentech venture called Letts Safari. Letts Safari was created to expedite the move to ‘renewable nature’, obtained through nature regeneration and surface-based carbon capture. Letts Safari har...
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WHAT IS SMALLER-SCALE REWILDING?
Rewilding could be one the most holistic and natural solutions to the climate crisis. Large national parks started the practice nearly thirty years ago in places like Yellowstone Park in America. Large scale projects are focused on wildlife conservation and reintroduction through natural, wild habit...
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LETTS GROUP’S INCUBATOR
Corporate incubators have been all the rage. Around 10 years ago, a number of corporates started to set up some kind of corporate incubator or accelerator to nurture new business lines and innovative products. They had a limited vision of ‘incubator’ – generally designed to host new startups w...
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225 YEARS OF LETTS – THE THOMAS LETTS YEARS
This year we celebrate the 225th anniversary of Letts. We will mark this extraordinary milestone with a series of articles and events – from the early years right up to today. The second article looks at the transition to the second generation of the family business – run by Thomas Letts. The fo...
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LETTS MEDIA PUBLICATION EXAMINES SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS FOR EARTH DAY
Letts Media publication ‘Surviving’ outlines a possible roadmap to reduce global warming – for Earth Day.  We should all understand the challenge by now. If we don’t keep global warming to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels we risk an irreversible climate crisis. “There are two end...
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225 YEARS OF LETTS – THE EARLY YEARS
This year we celebrate the 225th anniversary of Letts. We will mark this extraordinary milestone with a series of articles and events – from the early years right up to today. The first article examines the founding of the original diary business by John Letts.  John Letts founded the busines...
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THE HISTORY OF THE LETTS DIARY
Letts has been a name associated with diaries since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It was for the year 1812 that John Letts, the founder of the present-day business, published his first diary and thereby originated a new concept of diary-keeping completely different from the traditional us...
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ART EXHIBITION REVIEW – ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
Artemisia Gentileschi at the National Gallery. The National Gallery has opened an exhibition of Artemisia Gentileschi in their more prestigious Exhibition Rooms in the Sainsbury Wings which must be seen and remains the talk of the town. This is unusual because – as one of the first female Artists ...
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LETTS MEDIA PUBLICATION EXAMINES REWILDING IN LONDON
Letts Media publication DSP Online is currently running a series on rewilding in London. “When we think of rewilding, too often we imagine vast wilderness or national park’s such as Yellowstone Park. Less known, but potentially as impactful, is smaller-scale rewilding which yields similar b...
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