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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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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.
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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.