Writing tagged: ‘prehistory’
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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…
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Newsletter No. 30: ‘Ming’
Fabulous birds • Rebecca Solnit • Webb Space Telescope • Stonehenge • book reviews • cutting some crap • and more…
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Newsletter No. 27: ‘Getting hitched’
The Pros and Cons of tying the knot • prehistoric invention • Ernest Shackleton • W.G. Sebald • swallows • comma splices • Amy Liptrot • Kapka Kassabova • and more…
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Book review: ‘Ancestral Journeys’ by Jean Manco
The peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings.
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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…
