Journeys through unexpected places.
Reviews: History
Book review: ‘Thames Mudlarking’ by Jason Sandy & Nick Stevens
Searching for London’s Lost Treasures.
Book review: ‘Gone’ by Michael Blencowe
A search for what remains of the world’s extinct creatures.
Book review: ‘The Sea View Has Me Again’ by Patrick Wright
Uwe Johnson in Sheerness (1974–1984).
Book review: ‘Tamed’ by Alice Roberts
Ten species that changed our world.
Book review: ‘Ghosts on the Shore’ by Paul Scraton
Travels along Germany’s Baltic coast.
Book review: ‘Bully for Brontosaurus’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in Natural History.
Book review: ‘Ancestral Journeys’ by Jean Manco
The peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings.
Book review: ‘The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century’ by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Looking at the world through the eyes of a 17th-century polymath.
Book review: ‘Arctic Dreams’ by Barry Lopez
Deservedly seen as a classic.