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Reviews: History

‘Time Song’ by Julia Blackburn

Book review: ‘Time Song’ by Julia Blackburn

Searching for Doggerland

Published 29-Mar-2019
‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva

Book review: ‘Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’ by Sabina Radeva

Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection explained for young children.

Published 31-Jan-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Science Tags: reviews
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin volume 8

Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’

Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.

Published 31-Dec-2018
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, History Tags: reviews
Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants

Book review: ‘Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants’ by Ken Thompson

Darwin’s botany today.

Published 20-Nov-2018
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Science Tags: reviews
Watling Street

Book review: ‘Watling Street’ by John Higgs

Travels through Britain and its ever-present past.

Published 01-Nov-2018
Heligoland

Book review: ‘Heligoland’ by Jan Rüger

Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea.

Published 30-Apr-2018
Ascent of Tyndall

Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson

Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.

Published 20-Mar-2018
Flamingo's Smile

Book review: ‘The Flamingo’s Smile’ by Stephen Jay Gould

Reflections in natural history.

Published 28-Jan-2018
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: History, Science Tags: stephen jay gould

Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover

Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.

Published 06-Mar-2017

Book review: ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ by Nicholas Crane

From the Ice Age to the Present.

Published 04-Mar-2017

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On the Moor

On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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