Writing tagged: ‘history’
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LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’
On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.
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Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by Ritchie Robertson
The pursuit of happiness, 1680–1790.
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Book review: ‘Ancestral Journeys’ by Jean Manco
The peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings.
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14 May 2019
A surprise encounter with a howler monkey’s backside.
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Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.
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Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by John Robertson
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The History of Life’ by Michael J Benton
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The Ice Age’ by Jamie Woodward
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The Edge of the World’ by Michael Pye
How the North Sea made us who we are.
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Book review: ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
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Book review: ‘The Invention of Science’ by David Wootton
A new history of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton.