Writing tagged: ‘Charles Darwin’
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 8, 1860’
Letters to and from Darwin in the immediate aftermath of the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’.
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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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Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
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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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Book review: ‘The Ascent of John Tyndall’ by Roland Jackson
A long-overdue biography of the Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual.
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Book reviews: ‘Charles Darwin: Voyaging’ • ‘Charles Darwin: The Power of Place’
A magnificent two-volume biography.
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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…
