NATURES MEMORY (HB)

Zoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britain's natural history museums. Here, he guides us through a series of extraordinary collections. But all is not as it seems. Ashby argues that the version of nature natural history museums present does not always reflect reality, with specimens revealing more about the biases of curators and society than they do about the species they represent. These issues are precisely why it's such an exciting time to be a natural historian, for while society shapes museums, so too can museums shape society - for the good.