2017: a year in photos

My seventh annual video slideshow review of the year.

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2016: a year in photos

My sixth annual video slideshow review of the year.

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2015: a year in photos

Reading in the Guggenheim gallery, Venice

My fifth annual video slideshow review of the year.

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2014: a year in photos

My fourth annual video slideshow review of the year.

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2013: a year in photos

My third annual video slideshow review of the year.

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Recent Newsletters

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

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

Newsletter No. 10: Book launch

24-Nov-2017: 158 years ago today saw the publication of my hero Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’. What better excuse could I possibly need for choosing today to launch my own book, ‘On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk’.