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Charles Darwin's bedroom recreated at Down House
Dress up in period costume, sit on Victorian furniture and discover Darwin's personal life with new hands-on interpretation at Down House in Kent.
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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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10 Ways to Experiment Like Darwin
From collecting toenail clippings to using your dinner guests as guinea pigs, experimenting like Darwin did at Down House is easier – and more disgusting – than you might have thought…
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Down House Collection Highlights
Highlights from the extensive array of Charles Darwin's personal artefacts and scientific paraphernalia that form the Down House collection.
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Interior Design Inspiration from Charles Darwin’s study
The Old Study at Down House was the centre of Charles Darwin's daily routine. It was in here that he performed experiments, wrote to fellow scientists and composed his groundbreaking works including "On the Origin of Species".
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10 Ways to Experiment Like Darwin
Experimenting like Charles Darwin did at Down House is easier – and more disgusting – than you might have thought...
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As well as being Darwin’s family home for 40 years, Down House was where he developed and tested the theories published in his book ‘On the Origin of Species’. The garden was Darwin’s ‘living laboratory’ where he could conduct hundreds of experiments on the natural world. We look at some of these garden experiments and how they informed Darwin’s world-changing ideas.
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The UK’s biggest celebration of climate change action is happening this summer and English Heritage is excited to be involved.
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To coincide with our Chairman’s Lecture by Emily Parker about Charles Darwin's experiments at Down House, we’ve put together a Members’ quiz about the man himself.