The tiny piece of history is believed to be the only slide from Darwin's research to ever publicly go under the hammer.

Page from Conrad Martens’s sketchbooks (1833–35), from his time on board the HMS Beagle (courtesy Cambridge University Library) Yet the sketchbooks aren’t just about Darwin; Martens was an adventurous ...

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Young conservationists are to be inspired by Charles Darwin’s world-changing voyage on HMS Beagle. In August the 1918 tall ship Oosterschelde will set sail from Plymouth on a two-year expedition ...

THERE is no book of travels so famous, so instructive or so widely read as the second edition of Darwin's “Naturalist's Voyage round the World”. The so-called first edition was published as the third ...

The remains of a rare 19th Century dock built for Charles Darwin's ship HMS Beagle has been recognized as a site of national importance. The submerged mud berth on the River Roach in Rochford, Essex, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. London: Charles Darwin’s father once told his son that the idea of sailing around the world on some wild scheme was reckless, dangerous ...

The drawings by Darwin's shipmate Conrad Martens, the ship's artist, date from mid-1833 to early 1835. They have been digitised by Cambridge University Library. Dr Alison Pearn, from the Darwin ...

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