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Hugh Aldersey-Williams

The latest news and reviews of Hugh Aldersey-Williams

June 2016

  • Lifeboat Rescuing Vessel, by JMW Turner

    Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth review – ebbs and flows

    Hugh Aldersey-Williams’s scholarly survey of the history of tides, from the Bristol Channel to the Bay of Fundy, is enlightening

May 2016

  • The river Winniford flowing into the sea at Seatown Beach in Dorset

    The power and glory of tides – in pictures

    The ebb and flow of oceans around the world reveal the planet’s daily dance in the sloshing of billions of tonnes of water. Hugh Aldersey-Williams examines the collision of immovable object and irresistible force at the boundary between land and sea

May 2015

  • Statue of Sir Thomas Browne, Hay Hill, Norwich, Norfolk

    The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century by Hugh Aldersey-Williams – review

    A delightful foray around the brain of the 17th-century scientist and writer who coined the words ‘electricity’ and ‘hallucination’

February 2013

  • Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson

    Anatomies: The Human Body, Its Parts and the Stories They Tell by Hugh Aldersey-Williams – review

  • Captain Scott and the British polar team at the south pole, 18 January 1912

    Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams; Extremes by Kevin Fong – review

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