The peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings.
Book review: ‘Ancestral Journeys’ by Jean Manco
archaeology
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.
Book review: ‘Surfacing’ by Kathleen Jamie
A third collection of wonderful essays from my favourite writer.
8 July 2019
A walk on the Moor.
Newsletter No. 14: The terror Carter’s warriors
Liverpool · chinese warriors · Ben Myers · shoes on wires · Patti Smith · Wuthering Heights · stratigraphy · astronomy · ancient DNA · storm petrels · LIMONCELLO ICE CREAM!!
Newsletter No. 13: Bramblings!
bramblings · wheatears · Mary Beard · Beaker folk · Meera Sodha · recipes · John Tyndall · Eunice Foote · religion · Ben Myers · Austin Kleon · Walter Benjamin · giant sloths · Shetland · Neil Ansell · Charles Darwin
Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
Darwin on earthworms: small change writ large
A review of Charles Darwin's wonderful final book, ‘The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits’.
136 snail shells & a pint of shorts
As life events go, Shetland 1985 turned out to be right up there.
LRB letter: ‘Ancient Refrigerators’
A possible solution to a well-known conundrum about Ancient Rome.