The pursuit of happiness, 1680–1790.
Writing tagged: ‘history’
Book review: ‘Ancestral Journeys’ by Jean Manco
The peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings.
14 May 2019
A surprise encounter with a howler monkey’s backside.
Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.
Newsletter No. 3: Peaking too soon
Patti Smith · when your taste exceeds your talent · Spinosa · giant snowballs · reconciling longitude · two toddlers in a trench coat · opinions that need to be justified · Earth's days lengthen · the universe has 20 times more galaxies than we thought · dinosaur tail preserved in amber · John Berger
Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by John Robertson
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The History of Life’ by Michael J Benton
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Ice Age’ by Jamie Woodward
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Edge of the World’ by Michael Pye
How the North Sea made us who we are.
Book review: ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.