Mark Avery’s most recent Sunday Book Review takes up a new work by Guy Shrubsole that seeks to answer a very pressing modern question indeed: “Who Owns England?”
Mark Contemplates Ownership
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Badger Clan
Melissa Harrison’s Seasons Anthology quartet has brought me many things since I first began reading it – among which have been delight, rejuvenation, and spiritual guidance, to mention only a few. It has also brought me into an awareness of the work of a number of truly superb contemporary nature writers, prominent among whom is Caroline Greville.
Thomas Harriot; A Life in Science
When the advance reading copy of Robyn Arianrhod’s forthcoming “Thomas Harriot; A Life in Science” arrived from Oxford University Press last month, I’ll admit the first thought that entered my mind was “Who?” But after delving into it, I’m increasingly of the opinion that that is really the reason behind why Dr. Arianrhod likely wrote the book in the first place.
Shadows of the Present
Of all the problems facing the United States that I have, as an American, over the course of my life seen to be the most trouble-inspiring, are a profound misunderstanding of history and an over-abundance of nostalgia for the imagined past that this misunderstanding creates. An insufficient, and commonly over-simplified, initial education in our own […]