History
-
Book review: ‘Sightlines’ by Kathleen Jamie
A second volume of superb ‘nature writing’.
-
Book review: ‘Sea Room’ by Adam Nicolson
The story of one man, three islands and half a million puffins.
-
Book review: ‘Time Song’ by Julia Blackburn
Searching for Doggerland
-
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’.
-
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants’ by Ken Thompson
Darwin’s botany today.
-
Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
-
Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.
-
Book review: ‘In Patagonia’ by Bruce Chatwin
Wandering about Patagonia with no clear plan in mind.
-
Book review: ‘Heligoland’ by Jan Rüger
Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea.
-
Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’
A magnificent two-volume biography.
-
Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
-
Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.