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62 Sandi Toksvig and the Natural History Museum

billpurdue wrote 5 months ago: Sandi Toksvig and the British Museum this time, but first: I promised to let you know about Mike Pan … more →

Tags: Bibliophile books, w h smith, Mike Pannet, natural history museum, Sandi Toksvig, Paige Toon, Tuscany, Yorkshire, dinosaur

Jonathan Jones' Book List

Deborah Barlow wrote 11 months ago: It’s time for my traditional roundup of the books I wish I’d read this year. It was a br … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, Books, Art, jonathan jones, Book List, coyote, Joseph Beuys, ian hamilton finlay, michael fried

Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey

bookworm wrote 1 year ago: Just read about Richard Fortey’s Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History M … more →

Tags: History, NYTimes, memoir, Science Books, Reading, Dry Storeroom No. 1, Natural History

Book Review: Richard Fortey's "Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution" - by Octavia

NexusZine wrote 1 year ago: I picked this book up of a shelf knowing what a trilobite was – like everyone else I’ve seen the fos … more →

Tags: Reviews, Sciences, Books, Trilobites

Seeing Through Stone

sciencebits wrote 1 year ago: Richard Fortey loves fossils. In Trilobite! he waxes poetic about the trilobite’s stone eyes. … more →

Tags: Biology, Trilobite, Fossil, eye

Playing Catch-up

Weston Cutter wrote 1 year ago: This space has been so quiet for the last few weeks because of travel and so now I’m trying to catch … more →

Tags: nonfiction, bad girls, Maps, Dry Storeroom No. 1, Don Paterson, ellen sussman, James R. Akerman, Robert W. Karrow, Best Thought Worst Thought

Natural history

patricksteel wrote 1 year ago: Below is a book review I wrote that was published in this month’s edition of Museums Journal. … more →

Tags: museum, writing, criticism, natural history museum, museums journal, book, Review


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