Hilary Spurling

John Aubrey and his circle: those magnificent men and their flying machines

A review of Ruth Scurr’s biography of John Aubrey tells how the distinguished scholar and antiquarian, friend of Pepys and Hobbes, died in penury and was buried in an unmarked grave

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  • John Aubrey: My Own Life

    Ruth Scurr

    Chatto, pp. 518

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