Darwin Correspondence Project

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The evolution of Darwin’s Origin: Cambridge releases 12,000 papers online

24 Nov 2014

The origins of Darwin’s theory of evolution – including the pages where he first coins and commits to paper the term ‘natural selection’ – are being...

Darwin’s women

09 Sep 2013

On matters of gender, Charles Darwin was supposedly an arch-conservative - but new research suggests that he actively helped women who were striving...

Fryderyk Chopin's manuscript of the Nocturne Op. 62 No. 1

The un-Limited Edition

21 May 2013

Emerging new digital editions at Cambridge are effecting a sea-change in the nature of the scholarly edition, radicalising access to vital source...

‘My dear old friend’: Darwin the man revealed as 40-year correspondence published online

23 Apr 2013

The 40-year friendship of Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker, the most significant and scientifically important of Darwin’s life, can now be explored...

Darwin’s ‘forgotten women’ celebrated on International Women's Day

08 Mar 2013

Forgotten female correspondents of Charles Darwin; women who all made substantive contributions to nineteenth century society, are to be brought from...

Darwinian ideas explored on the big screen

21 Oct 2012

Charles Darwin’s relevance to today’s society will be explored in a four film series at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse from Monday.

Unpublished journal offers new take on Darwin’s daughter

12 Apr 2012

A small, lockable leather diary - kept in the vast archives of Cambridge University Library - has led to a reassessment of one of the key...

Darwin's copy of the Duchenne photographs used in his experiments. The same photos will be used in the Festival of Ideas event and then on the website.

The face of emotions: Darwin, computers and autism

21 Oct 2011

An online recreation of Charles Darwin’s famous experiment on the expression of emotion is being launched at Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas...

Letters exchanged by Darwin with his close friend Joseph Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; the letter from Darwin was written shortly after the completion of On the Origin of Species in 1859

Red letter day for Darwin Correspondence Project

04 May 2011

The project mapping Charles Darwin’s life and work in the 15,000 letters he wrote or received during his extraordinary lifetime will be completed...