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Rare tree planted at Darwin's Down House
A rare tree has been planted at Down House this week to commemorate Robert FitzRoy - Captain of the HMS Beagle and a pioneering scientist in his own right.
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Down House is important because it was here that Charles Darwin carried out much of the research that underpinned his scientific thought
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The Darwin Family at Down House
How Charles and Emma Darwin’s children were both seen and heard during their surprisingly boisterous childhood at Down House in Kent.
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Chairman's Lecture: Charles Darwin's living laboratory at Down House
In 1859, while living at Down House in Kent, Charles Darwin published his theory of natural selection in his book On the Origin of Species. The garden at Down House was Darwin’s ‘living laboratory’, where he conducted hundreds of experiments on the natural world. In her lecture on 7 February, Emily Parker, landscape advisor, took us behind the scenes of the project to reveal more about those experiments and the role they played in informing his groundbreaking theories.
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A description of Down House, now filled with many family portraits, furniture and personal possessions from Charles Darwin’s day.
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Sources for Darwin and Down House
A guide to the documents, books and collections of artefacts for the study of Darwin and Down House.
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Darwin’s unsolicited gift from Marx put on display at Down House
Gifted by admirer Karl Marx, the newly conserved copy of Das Kapital was abandoned by Darwin and remains uncut and unread 150 years later
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Explore how Down House and Gardens, Charles Darwin's home, has altered in the decades since it passed to English Heritage using sliders to see 'then' and 'now' photographs.