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

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Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson

A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.

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Newsletter No. 12: Unspeakable things beneath the shrubs

Mark E Smith · Alan Bennett · Carl Linnaeus · Ronald Blythe · human evolution · flu epidemics · Great Exhibition of the North · Charles Darwin · insects · introverts · Virginia Woolf · John Tyndall

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Newsletter No. 17: Scoffing all the berries

Island Review · Julian Hoffman · John Green · Dorothea Lange · Jonathan Meades · Rebecca Solnit · Willowherb Review · Robert Macfarlane · Dave Winer · Horatio Clare · Mark Cocker · Steve Rutt

Newsletter No. 16: Snippets of nature writing

sidelines · Robert Macfarlane · Julian Hoffman · Amy Liptrot · Little Toller · Sir Thomas Browne · Tim Dee · Adam Nicolson · Julia Blackburn

Newsletter No. 15: Semi-immersed

writing & research · milestones · Anthea Bell · island wardens · hillforts · pubs · oak trees · ancient ships · self-improvement · Mark Cocker · Jan Morris · Melissa Harrison

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!!