Writing tagged: ‘Alice Roberts’
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Book review: ‘The Celts’ by Alice Roberts
Searching for a civilisation.
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Book review: ‘Crypt’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
Life, death and disease in the Middle Ages and beyond.
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Rich Text newsletter No. 34: ‘Out-of-date before I’d written a word’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…
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Book review: ‘Buried’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain.
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Book review: ‘Ancestors’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
The prehistory of Britain in seven burials.
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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
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Late autumn
Under self-imposed semi-house-arrest. Phase two of the Squirrel Wars. Binge reading. A brace of anniversaries.
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Book review: ‘Tamed’ by Alice Roberts
Ten species that changed our world.
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15 March 2020
A sinister portent.
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Book review: ‘The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being’ by Alice Roberts
Evolution and the making of us.
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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