Our early summer contributions include the potent Beagle Cocktail courtesy of Dr Dean Madden. Kevin Dixon writes about radical agitators in Darwin, the Reverend Taylor & Ashburton’s Richard Carlile whilst by contrast Peter Stiles’ character is an utopian Christian Socialist and naturalist – his essay is titled Darwin and Philip Henry Gosse. On June 13th, [...]

By Lawrie Scott Well, who was this Charles Darwin that everyone’s talking about? He was the one who invented evolution wasn’t he? Well no. Lots of people including his own grandfather, Erasmus, had been thinking about how species (animals and plants, etc.) changed or evolved over time. Charles Darwin’s enormous contribution to the discussion was [...]

Our new website launches today with an initial collection of articles by Kevin Dixon who has contributed Darwin & Marx, Darwin’s Religious Beliefs, Darwin and Kinship with Non-human Animals, Darwin and Victorian Society, Adaptation & Conflict in Early Modern Devon and Pat Grant. who has contributed The Evolution of Humans. We are seeking further contributions [...]