Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
Reviews: History
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants’ by Ken Thompson
Darwin’s botany today.
Book review: ‘Watling Street’ by John Higgs
Travels through Britain and its ever-present past.
Book review: ‘Heligoland’ by Jan Rüger
Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea.
Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
Book review: ‘The Flamingo’s Smile’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in natural history.
Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.
Book review: ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ by Nicholas Crane
From the Ice Age to the Present.
Book review: ‘Ever Since Darwin’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in Natural History.
Book review: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law
A very short introduction.