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Writing tagged: ‘prehistory’

Book review: ‘Ancestors’ by Prof. Alice Roberts

‘Ancestors’ by Prof. Alice Roberts

The prehistory of Britain in seven burials.

Published 18-Apr-2022
Filed under: Writing Genres: History, Science Tags: Alice Roberts, archaeology, prehistory, reviews

Newsletter No. 27: ‘Getting hitched’

Timber hitch

The Pros and Cons of tying the knot · prehistoric invention · Ernest Shackleton · W.G. Sebald · swallows · comma splices · Amy Liptrot · Kapka Kassabova

Published 21-Mar-2022
Filed under: Writing Tags: Amy Liptrot, Charles Darwin, Jen, Kapka Kassabova, prehistory, swallows, W.G. Sebald

Book review: ‘Ancestral Journeys’ by Jean Manco

‘Ancestral Journeys’ by Jean Manco

The peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings.

Published 20-Oct-2020
Filed under: Writing Genres: History, Science Tags: archaeology, Europe, history, prehistory, reviews

Newsletter No. 11: ‘Penguin eggs and yetis’

Browne
Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne · Saturn · penguin eggs · heroes of science · evolution of languages · nature books · dna barcoding · periodic table · Alice Roberts · geology

Published 02-Dec-2017
Filed under: Writing Tags: Alice Roberts, Charles Darwin, dna, geology, GrrlScientist, language, On the Moor (book), prehistory, Stephen Jay Gould, Thomas Browne, Thony Christie, W.G. Sebald

RECENT NEWSLETTERS

  • Newsletter No. 28: ‘Breaking my golden rule’
    Thoughts on nature writing · Richard Feynman · Vikings! · Bronze Age diets · recovered daguerreotypes · transit of Phobos · Alice Roberts · Cal Flyn
  • 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
  • Newsletter No. 26: ‘Slits for pupils’
    Research triage · filing your nuggets · pupil shapes · Amy Liptrot · moths and bats · critical reading · early medieval history · Tim Dee · book reviews

RECENT SIDELINES

  • The gaping void between fact and fiction
    Fact and fiction should be recognised as discrete things, not parts of a continuum.
  • A long way
    A trip to Ireland.
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    A bad night’s sleep has unforeseen benefits.
  • Nature writing’s ill-defined, thriving ecosystem
    There is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to whatever ‘nature writing’ is supposed to be these days. It might not all be to my personal taste, but such diversity has to be a good thing.

RECENT ARTICLES

  • Giving fiascos a bad name
    How not to make a simple three-minute podcast piece.
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    To mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, a brief account of Rev. Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin.

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  • 2021: a year in photos
    My eleventh annual video slideshow.
  • HebWeb interview
    I have been interviewed for the local HebWeb site.

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