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Enjoying the descriptive street signs on our round

Enjoying the descriptive street signs on our rounds this morning. #london #chelsea #thomasmore #toddlersofinstagram

Woozy quality to the light this morning as the sun

Woozy quality to the light this morning as the sun comes peeking beneath the rain clouds.
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London’s emptying out as everyone dashes off for Christmas. Love the quiet streets at this time of year. .
#london #rain #christmas

The London Eye on a bright and blue winter’s day

The London Eye on a bright and blue winter’s day. I have still never gone on myself but my brother, nephew and niece are in town and up there somewhere. #london #londoneye #architecture #cities

A few years ago I wrote about James Glaisher’s a

A few years ago I wrote about James Glaisher’s ambitious 1860s balloon ascents in The Weather Experiment. Here’s a contemporary photograph of Glaisher I bought while busy with research. It was taken as he was enjoying his first flush of fame as the man who had soared higher than anyone else in history (which was about seven miles in a good thick coat).
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Glaisher’s ballooning has always been a rather obscure bit of Victoriana, but a year or so ago I heard that his story had been picked up by Hollywood. And here it is! Glaisher - played by Eddie Redmayne - is the hero of the new film “The Aeronauts”, which opens on Monday. I’m intrigued to see it.
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Here’s a few Aeronautical pics 🎈 🌧 ☀️ #theaeronauts #glaisher #ballooning #science #theweatherexperiment

I’ve seen lots of sun, sandcastles and cirrus cl

I’ve seen lots of sun, sandcastles and cirrus clouds on/over the Isle of Wight this beautiful week. #isleofwight #family #holidays #beaches #theneedles

A box of Endeavour paperbacks has arrived. No kang

A box of Endeavour paperbacks has arrived. No kangaroo on the front this time but the design wizards at @vintagebooks have made it look just as bright and brilliant as the hardback. Out on 6 June! 🦘

#endeavour #bookstagram #history #enlightenment #bookdesign #ships

Holidays at long long last. Hello from Venice Beac

Holidays at long long last. Hello from Venice Beach, CA. #outofoffice #californication

I’ve six hours of teaching tomorrow on memory an

I’ve six hours of teaching tomorrow on memory and imagination in non-fiction writing. Here are six books that are going to get me through it. #bookstagram #nonfictionbooks @aanch_m

Mike Jay’s one of my favourite writers and this

Mike Jay’s one of my favourite writers and this is his completely original and totally absorbing new history of mescaline. I was lucky enough to read it in manuscript last year and it’s out next month in this suitably trippy cover. .
“As darkness fell, honeycombs of green and violet threaded across my vision ... I thought of the thousands of cacti we had seen stretching and sprawling across the slopes of the mountain valleys as they luxuriated in the sun, each one a mescaline factory.” 🌵 🌵 🌵 #bookstagram #nonfictionbooks #yaleuniversitypress #psychedelic

I love the way he puts on his coat. #toddlersofins

I love the way he puts on his coat. #toddlersofinstagram #style

A few Oxford scenes from this morning. There’s t

A few Oxford scenes from this morning. There’s the colourful houses on Oriel Street and the yard outside Pembroke College. I also liked the carved face over the Pembroke entrance gate. I guess those stoney eyes must have watched my old hero Samuel Johnson striding in and out a few hundred years ago.
#oxford #orielstreet #architecture #oxforduniversity #samueljohnson

London. On board camera. 📷 💼 🚊 #london #t

London. On board camera. 📷 💼 🚊 #london #tube #mindthegap

It’s just about my favourite time of the year wh

It’s just about my favourite time of the year when the graceful magnolia tree in Margravine Cemetery comes into bloom.
#london #trees #magnolia #margravinecemetery #parks #spring

“Could the story of the Polynesian voyagers be w

“Could the story of the Polynesian voyagers be written in full, then it would be the wonder of the world.” Really lovely mix of history, adventure and science in Sea People by Christina Thompson. I’ve just reviewed it for next month’s @lit_review
#nonfictionbooks #literature #books #polynesian #pacific #bookstagram #voyaging

Two and a half months after Christmas and I came a

Two and a half months after Christmas and I came across this little tree in a nearby street. I didn’t know whether to admire it as the lone survivor of a vanquished population or feel pity for it as tree out of time. #tree #london #survivors

Time’s flying. Two tomorrow! ✈️ #toddlersofi

Time’s flying. Two tomorrow! ✈️ #toddlersofinstagram #madmarchhare #birthday

In Greenwich and entranced as ever by the masts an

In Greenwich and entranced as ever by the masts and yards of the Cutty Sark. About to give an Endeavour lecture at the Maritime Museum.

Disfrutando esta novela grafica sobre FG Lorca cas

Disfrutando esta novela grafica sobre FG Lorca casi tanto como mi pan dulce de caramelo en Caffé Nero. #sabados #librosenespañol #librosrecomendados #federicogarcialorca

This is the botanist-explorer George Forrest who b

This is the botanist-explorer George Forrest who brought all sorts of rhododendrons and other plants - some reckon 30,000 in all - to Europe from Yunnan, China, in the early 1900s. I love the little flower pressed into his hat.

For our latest History Today podcast I travelled up to Hertfordshire to chat with Matt Biggs (of @bbcgqt) about plant hunting and one of Forrest’s narrow scrapes.
#history #plants #bbcgqt #exploration #china

Happy to see these first stirrings of spring #lond

Happy to see these first stirrings of spring #london #spring #flowers #nofilter

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