Writing tagged: ‘prehistory’
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Newsletter No. 31: ‘When nice old ladies wave’
Crossing paths with the queen · medieval books · palimpsests · pelicans · prehistoric forests · runways · light pollution · Stendhal · spiders · Musk · and more…
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Book review: ‘Kindred’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
An introduction to our formerly maligned cousins.
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Newsletter No. 30: ‘Ming’
Fabulous birds · Rebecca Solnit · Webb Space Telescope · Stonehenge · book reviews · cutting some crap · and more…
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Book review: ‘Ancestors’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
The prehistory of Britain in seven burials.
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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
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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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Newsletter No. 11: ‘Penguin eggs and yetis’
Sir Thomas Browne · Saturn · penguin eggs · heroes of science · evolution of languages · nature books · dna barcoding · periodic table · Alice Roberts · geology