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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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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
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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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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History of Greyfriars, Gloucester
The Franciscan friary of Gloucester Greyfriars was founded in about 1230. Its ruined church – built just two decades before the Dissolution of the Monasteries – is a rare surviving example of a Tudor monastic church.
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The remains of the bath house of Ravenglass Roman Fort, established around AD 130, are among the tallest Roman structures surviving in northern Britain: the walls stand almost 4 metres high.
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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.