Nick Spencer

Dinosaurs, dogma and the Victorian mind

The ‘monsters’ dug from the cliffs of Lyme Regis did not sit well with the literal reading of Genesis – but many other issues contributed to the famed Victorian crisis of faith

‘Duria Antiquior’ (‘A More Ancient Dorset’), engraving after Henry Thomas De La Beche, 1830. [Bridgeman Images]

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    The Bodley Head, pp. 496, £25

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