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About Darwin
- Features extensive information about Darwin, his life and his work, including timelines, photographs, articles and a large links database.
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Ancestor's Trail
- An annual walking event using footpaths in the Quantocks to represent Darwin’s evolutionary tree of life, inspired by Richard Dawkins' book "The Ancestor's Tale"; includes dates and venue details, photos, and an invitation to participate.
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Channel 4: The Genius of Charles Darwin
- Explores Darwin's life, work and theories, with video clips, Q&A and a forum.
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Charles Darwin Education Resources
- Offers a selection of education materials suitable for 11-16 year olds covering Darwin, his work, and significance.
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Charles Darwin Trust
- Aims to promote Darwin's legacy and to inspire a greater interest in the natural world. Presents details of the trust's work and educational programmes.
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The Charles Darwin Trust
- Works to enhance understanding of Darwin's historical and contemporary significance, and to promote excellence in science education. Includes news, events, contacts, and a guide to their projects and programmes for schools.
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The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
- Contains Darwin's complete publications, thousands of private papers, bibliography, manuscript catalogue and hundreds of supplementary works. Includes a user guide.
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Darwin - Big Idea Big Exhibition
- Interactive Beagle voyage explores Darwin's 5-year voyage on the Beagle where he came up with his revolutionary evolution ideas.
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Darwin 200
- Details the national programme of events celebrating Charles Darwin’s scientific ideas and their impact around his two hundredth birthday on 12 February 2009. Includes biographical information and a map of Darwin's Britain.
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Darwin 2009: The Festival
- Presents information about Cambridge University's programme of events celebrating the bicentenary of Darwin's birth. Includes news, details of speakers and booking information.
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Darwin Birthplace Society
- Outlines the objectives of this society, which aims to promote Darwin's legacy to Shrewsbury, his town of birth.
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Darwin Correspondence Project
- Aims to locate, research, and publish summaries of, all letters written by Charles Darwin. Includes FAQ and teaching resource in addition to the letters themselves.
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Darwin Day Celebration
- Co-ordinates and promotes events worldwide on or around Darwin's birthday. Includes resource for organisers, audio files, photo galleries and event listings.
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The Darwin Legend
- Explores Charles Darwin's legacy in the light of the 2009 bicentennial celebrations; provides a collection of essays and resources in an attempt to strip off mythology that has accumulated around the figure of Darwin.
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Darwin Today
- Initiative funded by the seven UK research councils which aims to encourage debate and understanding of modern evolution theories and research. Features articles, topics and online discussion.
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Darwin's Landscape Laboratory
- A guide to the museum and nature reserve established at Down House, in Downe, Kent, where Darwin lived and worked on his Theory of Evolution. Includes resources, a virtual tour, and practical details for visitors.
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Darwin's Pigeons
- Offering extensive information on Darwin's research into pigeon breeding.
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Darwin's Plants from the Beagle Voyage
- Cambridge University project which provides high resolution images of the very plants collected by Darwin on the Beagle voyage and then recorded and preserved in Professor John Henslow’s Herbarium.
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Darwin's Shrewsbury
- Highlights the year long festival of events in and around Darwin's birthplace, Shrewsbury, between November 08 and November 09.
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Darwin's Shrewsbury
- The town of Darwin's birth and early education holds an annual festival in his honour; includes a programme and contacts, with background on the scientist's early years.
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The Friends of Charles Darwin
- Originally founded to campaign for the depiction of their hero, Charles Darwin, on a Bank of England bank note. Provides a collection of articles and resources, with details of membership and links.
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The HMS Beagle Project
- Charts progress in this project which aims to build a sailing replica of Darwin's HMS Beagle, which will carry a team of researchers and scientists around the world.
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The HMS Beagle Project
- A project to build a replica of the ship and sail her around the world to support research and public engagement in science; with progress reports and news, how to get involved, and contacts.
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