Over the last few months, our curator has shared and reviewed some of her favourite books.

Keen to have copies of your own? We have put together a list of where to find them. While we cannot guarantee Christmas delivery, perhaps it can be a good start to your new year reading list!


Darwin’s Hunch by Christa Kuljian

Click here to order Darwin’s Hunch

Skin We Are In by Sindiwe Magona and Nina Jablonski

Click here to order Skin We Are In

Women in Science- 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Click here to order Women in Science

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong by Angela Saini

Click here to order Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong

We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper (Reviewed by Dr Tammy Hodgskiss Curator of the Origins Centre Museum)

Click here to order We Keep the Dead Close


If you are wanting to keep these books with you, wherever you go, they are all available as a Kindle eBook but will require an Amazon UK or USA account.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindle-eBooks-books

https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks-books