History
Reviews of history books.
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Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’
A magnificent two-volume biography.
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Book review: ‘Built on Bones’ by Brenna Hassett
15,000 years of urban life and death.
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Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.
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Book review: ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ by Nicholas Crane
How we humans shaped the landscape of Britain, from the Ice Age to the present.
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Book Review: ‘Threads’ by Julia Blackburn
The Delicate Life of John Craske.
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Book review: ‘Humanism’ by Stephen Law
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by John Robertson
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The History of Life’ by Michael J Benton
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The Ice Age’ by Jamie Woodward
A very short introduction.
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Book review: ‘The Edge of the World’ by Michael Pye
How the North Sea made us who we are.
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Book review: ‘The Invention of Nature’ by Andrea Wulf
The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science.
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Book review: ‘The Invention of Science’ by David Wootton
A new history of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton.