In which I unwittingly mimic my hero with the aid of an old chopping board.
Writing tagged: ‘Charles Darwin’
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 13 • 1865 plus supplement (1822–1864)’
Yet more ill-heath, with slow progress on Darwin’s ‘big book’.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 12 • 1864’
More sickness, more botany.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 11 • 1863’
Six months of illness, and lots of botany.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 10 • 1862’
Darwin grows in confidence.
Charles Darwin’s book-writing process
Charles Darwin’s approach to book-writing went through four key stages…
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 9 • 1861’
Poking around in flowers’ private parts.
Darwinian smut
On my new ‘Daily Darwin’ project.
Cambridge Darwin pilgrimage
A trip to see a treasure-trove of Darwinalia.
Charles Darwin’s note-making system
An exploration of how Darwin kept track of his various notes, enabling him to produce a huge body of work.
Converting my notes into a chapter
How I used my note-making system to research and write a chapter of my Darwin book.
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