
I’m a writer and photographer based in Hebden Bridge in the West Yorkshire Pennines.
My interests include the natural world, the British countryside, science in general, and Charles Darwin in particular. I combined these interests in my first book, On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk. It’s about digging deeper into the things I encounter on my local patch. It’s good: you should definitely check it out—by which, obviously, I mean buy it.
I’m currently working on a book about looking at the world through Darwin’s eyes.
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On the Moor: science, history and nature on a country walk
…wonderful. Science and history and geography and evolution and culture all tangled up in musings while walking about the moors around Hebden Bridge.
—PZ Myers, biologist and blogger, Pharyngula
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Rich Text newsletter No. 34: ‘Out-of-date before I’d written a word’ Seaweed science • landscape philosophy • the Anthropocene that isn’t • Fred Hoyle • Einstein in a hut • sword evolution • early medieval funerary rituals • spookily timely social media posts • and more…



















