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24th August 24 Aug 2013 | 12:38 pm
On 24th August, 1831, Charles Darwin's great friend and mentor, John Stevens Henslow, sat down at his desk, took up his pen, and wrote what turned out to be one of the most important letters in the hi...
End of the Darwin tenner 25 Jul 2013 | 01:17 pm
Jane Austen (a famous southerner). Pretty much as predicted, yesterday, the Bank of England announced that Jane Austen will replace Charles Darwin on the £10 note (most likely, some time in 2017). W...
20th July 20 Jul 2013 | 12:46 pm
20th July marks a number of Darwin-related anniversaries: On 20th July, 1804, Darwin's future friend and enemy, the brilliant anatomist and palaeontologist (and inventor of the word dinosaur) Sir Ric...
11th July, 1836: Darwin visits Napoleon 11 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
Towards the end of her second voyage, HMS Beagle called at the volcanic island of St Helena in the South Atlantic. Darwin went ashore to spend a few days geologising. While he was there, he took the o...
Bank of England caves in to pressure 3 Jul 2013 | 08:20 pm
BBC: Mark Carney to review female representation on bank notes Bank of England governor Mark Carney will look at the women represented on banknotes by the end of July. […] He wrote a letter in respo...
Change for a tenner? 1 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
If Charles Darwin taught us anything, it's that nothing is permanent. Things change. It's inevitable. Back in April, the Bank of England announced that Sir Winston Churchill is to replace Elizabeth F...
1st July 1 Jul 2013 | 11:03 am
On this day in 1858, Darwin and Wallace's joint paper on evolution by means of Natural Selection was read to the Linnean Society.
New website design 24 Jun 2013 | 12:53 pm
The Friends of Charles Darwin website has a new (dare I say it) intelligent design: simpler, faster, cleaner, and more adaptable to different browsers and reading devices. The new design should also m...
18th June 18 Jun 2013 | 12:24 pm
On this day in 1858, Darwin received a bombshell in the form of a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace. Continue reading →
New book review 10 Jun 2013 | 08:16 pm
New in the Friends of Charles Darwin book reviews section, a review of ‘Darwin's Apprentice: an archaeological biography of John Lubbock’ by Janet Owen. Continue reading →
