■ Mr Darwin’s Fishes
An exploration of the methods Charles Darwin used to collect his specimens on the ‘Beagle’ voyage and how fellow-naturalist Leonard Jenyns studied them for publication in Zoology of the Beagle.
In partnership with the Natural History Museum.
An exploration of the methods Charles Darwin used to collect his specimens on the ‘Beagle’ voyage and how fellow-
Opens Thursday 12 February 2009
(Darwin’s Birthday)
(Darwin’s Birthday)
■ Darwin’s Bookshelf
A selection of historic books from the Jenyns’ library at the BRLSI which influenced Darwin’s theories about the origins and derivations of species.
Opens November 2008
■ Monkey Business
A look at how Darwin and his ideas became a rich source of visual humour and parody in the nineteenth century and later.
Opens in the latter half of 2009.
■ The Descent of Man—Darwin’s Shadow on the Victorian Imagination
Marie Louise Luxemburg, BRLSI member
Darwin’s Origin of Species shook the foundations of Christian philosophy and led to a crisis of ideology. Writers and thinkers began to voice the uncomfortable possibility that, subject to the general laws of evolution, humanity was just as likely to degenerate as to progress. More...
Tuesday 21 April 2009
Dame Gillian Beer
Cambridge University
Cambridge University
Darwin’s ideas troubled his contemporaries and they responded variously with disgust, wit and satire. Contemporary letters, reviews, cartoons and particularly the writing of women poets offer insights into how his ideas were probed and turned, often in ways he could not have foreseen.
Wednesday 20 May 2009
Literature Programme
Exhibitions
All events are at BRLSI, 16 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN,
and start at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated.
and start at 7.30pm unless otherwise stated.
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