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Members' Week: Uncovering Soldierly Splendour at Apsley House
Join us for an exclusive talk exploring the 1st Duke of Wellington's military uniforms at Apsley House on Wednesday 27 May.
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A rare orchid, closely related to those that informed Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, has been restored to the scientist’s former garden at Down House in Kent by English Heritage. Following two years of careful conservation and management by the charity’s gardeners and volunteers, Down House’s violet helleborine orchid population has doubled in number and is currently enjoying its best flowering season in living memory.
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As home to one of history’s most celebrated scientists, Down House has aroused much interest from both scientists and social historians
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A history of Down House, the home of the great scientist Charles Darwin for 40 years, where he developed his theory of evolution by natural selection.
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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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Cherished by five generations of the Darwin family, ‘Etty’s Box’ is a red leather keepsake box filled with letters, shells, locks of hair and small personal treasures, it offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the domestic world surrounding the Darwin family. The box reveals how women in the household quietly shaped Charles Darwin’s daily life and his enduring legacy.
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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.