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Still from the film "Darwin's Women".

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...

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Charles Darwin

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...

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Henrietta Darwin

Unpublished journal offers new take on Darwin’s daughter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...

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