Newsletter
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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 • and more…
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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 • and more…
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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!! • and more…
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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 • and more…
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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 • and more…
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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 and more…
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Newsletter No. 10: ‘Book launch’
Announcing the launch of my book ‘On the Moor: science, history and nature on a country walk’ 158 years to the day after the publication of Charles Darwin‘s ‘On the Origin of Species’!
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Newsletter No. 9: ‘Teaser or spoiler?’
On the Moor • Zanzibar • container ships • giant ground sloth • Barry Lopez • indigenous people • Cambrian Explosion • Little Toller • Iain Sinclair • and more…
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Newsletter No. 8: ‘But is it Art?’
iPads • S-Town • Babylonian astronomy • Patti Smith • James Kelman • star-stuff • golden age of photography • conveying life’s wonders • horses • bees • organ donations • and more…
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Newsletter No. 7: ‘Hacked and hurt by time’
John Tyndall • Galápagos cormorants • why English is so odd • Thoreau & Darwin • anthropological discoveries • mass-extinction hyperbole • W.G. Sebald • yellow rattle • Inigo Thomas • Mars exploration • and more…
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Newsletter No. 6: ‘A borrowed dog’
Woodpeckers • ambrotype portraits • W.G. Sebald • a deserted hamlet • mission creep • prime meridians • W.H. Hudson • podcasts • street photography • bonkers • tapirs • coiners • and more…
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Newsletter No. 5: ‘Incongruous owl’
Dawn chorus • Simon Armitage • the invention of the telescope • huge, sprawling collaborations • Withnail & I • book smells • re-assembling Darwin’s research notes • converting walks into words • Daniel Dennett • writing letters • humanist politics • dentistry with stone tools • analysing penguin poo • Melissa Harrison • Robert…