in conjunction with the Natural History Museum in London
it was at the same time expressing a barbed cri de coeur against the inexorable rise of motor transport and 'machine-worship' that was overwhelming the tranquillity of his beloved city
From the painted hells of Surrey to the holy wells of Wales
The most audacious of these schemes aimed to convince German forces that plans to storm Normandy were a mere sideshow
His books have been translated into 25 languages and sold more than 200
Rot : An Imperial History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan in conjunction with the Natural**Pre Order Now** In the 1800s, as Britain became the world's most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. The Great Famine fractured long held assumptions about political economy and 'civilisation', threatening disorder in Britain. Ireland was a laboratory for empire, shaping British ideas about colonisation, population, ecology and work. In Rot, Padraic Scanlan reinterprets the history of this time and the result is a revelatory account of