History of Science
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Book Review: ‘Life Between the Tides’ by Adam Nicolson
In search of rockpools and other miracles.
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Book review: ‘A Year with Gilbert White’ by Jenny Uglow
A year in the life of the revered eighteenth-century country curate and naturalist Gilbert White
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 30 • 1882’
The end of a magnificent era.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 29 • 1881’
Publishing on earthworms • a pension for Wallace • death of a brother • feeling his age • and lots more…
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 28 • 1880’
Publishing on plant movement • researching earthworms • trying to get a civil pension for a friend • turning down an invitation from the Archbishop of Canterbury • and lots more…
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Book review: ‘The Notebook’ by Roland Allen
A history of thinking on paper.
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Book Review: ‘Radical By Nature’ by James T. Costa
The revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 9 • 1861’
Poking around in flowers’ private parts.
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Book review: ‘Ancestors’ by Prof. Alice Roberts
The prehistory of Britain in seven burials.
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Book review: ‘The Enlightenment’ by Ritchie Robertson
The pursuit of happiness, 1680–1790.
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Book review: ‘Darwin: a companion’ by Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe
A monumental reference work, and a must-have for all Darwin scholars.
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Book review: ‘Bully for Brontosaurus’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in natural history.