Writing

Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 9 • 1861’

Poking around in flowers’ private parts.
Darwinian smut

On my new ‘Daily Darwin’ project.
2022: a year in photos

My twelfth annual video slideshow.
Book review: ‘A Private Spy: the letters of John le Carré, 1945-2020’

Fascinating insights into the mind of a great novelist.
Book review: ‘Northerners‘ by Brian Groom

A history of Northern England from the Ice Age to the present day.
Book review: ‘Allegorizings‘ by Jan Morris

Eclectic crepuscular essays.
Cambridge Darwin pilgrimage

A trip to see a treasure-trove of Darwinalia.
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…
Rich Text 31: Bonus Links

Some stuff there wasn’t space for in my Rich Text newsletter No. 31.
Book review: ‘Kindred’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

An introduction to our formerly maligned cousins.
Book review: ‘The Bonniest Companie’ by Kathleen Jamie

A wonderful collection of poems.
Charles Darwin’s note-making system

An exploration of how Darwin kept track of his various notes, enabling him to produce a huge body of work.