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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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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 kitchen gardens of country estates provided fruit, vegetables and cut flowers for the household, with many of those in our care continuing to function just as their owners intended. Find out about some of the most interesting kitchen gardens at some of our historic sites.
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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.
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Charles Darwin's gift from Karl Marx goes on display at Down House
Given to Charles Darwin by admirer Karl Marx, the newly conserved copy of Das Kapital was abandoned and remains uncut and unread 150 years later
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History of Bant’s Carn Burial Chamber and Halangy Down Ancient Village
A brief history of Bant’s Carn Burial Chamber, a Bronze Age entrance grave, and nearby Halangy Down Ancient Village, an Iron Age settlement.