About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney Groundswell Speaker 2024 Centring on the story of

Centring on the story of businessman El Hadji and the impotence that afflicts him on his marriage to a young third wife

labouring in the ash fields

Peek-a-Boo Monkey and Sweet Spring Flower in this bright

But archaeologists have in fact always found evidence for humanity's irrepressible restlessness

'Mesmerising

About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney Groundswell Speaker 2024 Centring on the story of'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps' Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time keeping itself' Richard Holmes The measurement of time has always been essential to human civilization, from early Roman sundials to the advent of GPS. But while we have one eye on the time every day, are we