Ignorance: A Global History by Peter Burke Groundswell Speaker 2024 Settlers looking for a new

Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets

from urban life to the natural world

'Atwood has the magic of turning the particular and the parochial into the universal' The Times 'Written with a brilliant angry energy' Observer 'Margaret Atwood not only has a sense of humour

Deeply also includes a foreword by Emma Thompson and a selection of Rickman's early diaries

he will discover traces of an ancestor he never knew existed

Ignorance: A Global History by Peter Burke Groundswell Speaker 2024 Settlers looking for a new"A fascinating catalogue of the conditions and agency of ignorance"Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement "A declaration of love for education"Stefan Bauer, History Today "Dazzling . . . a deliciously knowledgeable history of ignorance"David Armitage A rich, wide ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance