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• Founder of modern anthropology
• Abram Lyle and his Midas touch
• Sir Richard Doll and the deadly habit
• Picture Post: innovative journalism
• A motor engineer extraordinaire
• Edward Tyson and the “chain of being”
• Remembering the flying Scotsman
• Dutch barns and tin tabernacles
• The many virtues of the stinging nettle
• The curious fifth element of taste
• An essentially English humour
• Half a millennium of ceiling splendour
• The Fourdriniers’ paper machine
• The fiery orator behind the NHS
• A true master of geographical research