A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
Writing
All of my articles, reviews, notebook entries, and newsletters gathered in one place.
Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’
A magnificent two-volume biography.
Newsletter No. 12: Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs
Mark E Smith · Alan Bennett · Carl Linnaeus · Ronald Blythe · human evolution · flu epidemics · Great Exhibition of the North · Charles Darwin · insects · introverts · Virginia Woolf · John Tyndall
Book review: ‘The Last Wilderness’ by Neil Ansell
A journey into silence.
Book review: ‘Ravilious & Co.’ by Andy Friend
The Pattern of Friendship.
Book review: ‘The Dun Cow Rib’ by John Lister-Kaye
A very natural childhood.
High tides and volant voles
An unplanned visit to the flooded Dee Marshes is rewarded with a wildlife spectacle.
2017: a year in photos
My seventh annual video slideshow review of the year.
Newsletter No. 11: Penguin eggs and yetis
Sir Thomas Browne · Saturn · penguin eggs · heroes of science · evolution of languages · nature books · dna barcoding · periodic table · Alice Roberts · geology
Newsletter No. 10: Book launch
24-Nov-2017: 158 years ago today saw the publication of my hero Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’. What better excuse could I possibly need for choosing today to launch my own book, ‘On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk’.