Category Archives: Down house

Down house "lacking significance for science"

From Matt Brown’s blog comes the story of Unesco not awarding Down house (Darwin’s home) World Heritage Site status because its lack of “significance as a site for the heritage of science”. Read the post No promotion for Darwin house … Continue reading

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The extinct habit of thinking-walks

There is a circular path in Charles Darwin’s garden behind Down House, the sandwalk. This is where Darwin used to go for “thinking-walks” composing his thoughts and pondering his theories. There is a story that my graduate studies adviser (Torbjörn … Continue reading

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