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Roland Jackson
- Dec 17, 2018
- 2 min
Elton Hall
Elton Hall, home of the Proby family since 1660, lies in the Cambridgeshire countryside about 8 miles from Peterborough. It is regularly...
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Roland Jackson
- Sep 12, 2018
- 2 min
John Tyndall and John Ruskin
John Tyndall (c. 1822-1893) and John Ruskin (1819-1900), of similar ages, were both good friends and admirers of the older Thomas...
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Roland Jackson
- Jul 1, 2018
- 3 min
On the Eiger
“Victor”, I yelled, “take the rope in really tight. I can’t get past this overhang”. My cramponed feet scrabbled back onto the rock....
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Roland Jackson
- Apr 16, 2018
- 3 min
In search of a grave
Johann Josef Benet (1824–64), who John Tyndall called ‘Bennen’, was Tyndall’s favourite Alpine guide. Edward Whymper, the first...
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Roland Jackson
- Mar 21, 2018
- 3 min
Constructing a biography
Roland Jackson writes about how The Ascent of John Tyndall was conceived
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Roland Jackson
- Feb 11, 2018
- 3 min
On the Matterhorn
Surely no-one can look up at the Matterhorn from Zermatt, an iconic image blazoned across Swiss advertising, without wanting to stand on...
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Roland Jackson
- Jan 22, 2018
- 5 min
Paley's Works
In the early nineteenth century, no-one who had not studied the works of William Paley could consider themselves to have had a proper...
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Roland Jackson
- Jan 7, 2018
- 2 min
On Alp Lusgen
John Tyndall visited the Alps at a time when their peaks were being climbed for the first time, and Victorian tourists were enticed to...
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Roland Jackson
- Dec 4, 2017
- 2 min
Why John Tyndall?
‘We live in the sky, not under it’. This beautiful phrase, revealing a person who experienced as well as understood the physical world,...
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