Fabulous birds · Rebecca Solnit · Webb Space Telescope · Stonehenge · book reviews · cutting some crap · and more…
Newsletter
Newsletter No. 29: ‘An inspiration’
David Hockney • starling murmurations • ancient scripts • wet plate photography • Amy Liptrot • Black Death! • book reviews
Newsletter No. 28: ‘Breaking my golden rule’
Thoughts on nature writing · Richard Feynman · Vikings! · Bronze Age diets · recovered daguerreotypes · transit of Phobos · Alice Roberts · Cal Flyn
Newsletter No. 27: ‘Getting hitched’
The Pros and Cons of tying the knot · prehistoric invention · Ernest Shackleton · W.G. Sebald · swallows · comma splices · Amy Liptrot · Kapka Kassabova
Newsletter No. 26: ‘Slits for pupils’
Research triage · filing your nuggets · pupil shapes · Amy Liptrot · moths and bats · critical reading · early medieval history · Tim Dee · book reviews
Newsletter No. 25: ‘Painting the Forth Bridge’
On the undefinitiveness (I made that word up) of factual writing. Plus some cool links and book recommendations.
Newsletter No. 24: ‘Unclassifiable’
W.G. Sebald · Jan Morris · Jonathan Meades · prehistoric megafauna · Rebecca Solnit · complex numbers · Vikings! · Richard Mabey · Jeff Young · Horatio Clare · chess · Charles Darwin (obviously)
Newsletter No. 23: ‘Emerging from aestivation’
Massimo Pigliucci · ‘spirituality’ · Barry Lopez · talking trees · Eleanor Konik · rewilding · Mark Cocker · light pollution · Sir Clive Sinclair · Horatio Clare · swifts · The Enlightenment
Newsletter No. 22: ‘His glib, beardless chops’
Insensitive teenager · Helen Macdonald · Patrick Barkham · Richard Mabey · Julian Hoffman · photography · Mars · Christina Riley · icebergs · bowling alleys · cassette tapes · Richard Thompson · Antikythera mechanism · and more…
Newsletter No. 21: ‘Positively sluggish’
Richard Mabey · Tim Dee · Mark Cocker · Amy Liptrot · Kathleen Jamie · Patti Smith · Alan Bennett · Melissa Harrison · Urban Birder · Patrick Wright · Clive James · and more…
Newsletter No. 20: ‘Giving it the David Attenboroughs’
In which I gatecrash a podcast, and share cool stuff by the likes of: Melissa Harrison · Luke Turner · Werner Herzog · Merlin Sheldrake · Robert Macfarlane · Gaby Wood · Caught by the River · Philip Hoare · and a host of talented extras.
Newsletter No. 19: ‘Comfort Reading’
Melissa Harrison · Tim Dee · Horatio Clare · John Mitchinson · Ronald Blythe · Mary Beard · Benjamin Myers · Zack Arias · Eric Newby · greenland sharks · Maunsell forts · England rugby · Charles Darwin (obviously)