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Origins: Thinking About the Darwins as a Scientific Dynasty

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The Darwin family has remained one of the most prominent scientific dynasties in Britain from the turn of the eighteenth century. Drawing on ongoing research for the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Darwinian Inheritance: Communication and Empire in the Making of a Scientific Dynasty’ this talk aims to understand the Darwins as a family. Working through numerous land books, family trees and the Darwin Family Portrait Collection held by Darwin College among other things, this talk explores how the Darwin family actively researched their own history. It aims to answer the question of why the Darwin family carefully curated their heritage, outlining the different forms this research took and the purposes it served across three centuries.

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