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Darwin Festival 2022 – Darwin’s Life by Nigel Hinton
Here is our second instalment of our coverage of 2022’s Darwin Festival. Today we focus on a great lecture by Nigel Hinton titled “Darwin’s Life”. Recorded in the Hobbs Room […]
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The Darwin Festival 2022: Day 3 Shrewsbury School Darwin Collection Tour
In this special episode you will get to listen to AL as he gets shown around Shrewsbury School’s Darwin collection, courtesy of a tour put together by the school in aid of The Darwin festival.
You will hear Dr Robin Brooke-Smith and Naomi Nicholas as they talk you through various areas of the library and context behind some of the exhibits in the archive, including letters and books.
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Thank you so much the staff at Shrewsbury School for letting me come and do my thing during this fantastic tour. It was a genuine honour to get the opportunity to soak all of this history up in such close quarters. Dr Brooke-Smith and Naomi Nicholas, you were fantastic. Also thank you for telling me about Charles Darwin being hoodwinked by his friends into trying to ‘acquire’ a free Shrewsbury Cake (later known as biscuit) from the bakery on Castle street, made my day.
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