The Mount Charles Darwins boyhood family home Charles
The Mount, Charles Darwin’s boyhood family home
Charles Darwin’s undergraduate alma matter: Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
London Fashions, 1837
Down House, Darwin’s family home and the place he wrote his most important work
Darwin’s study in Down House
London’s West-End Railway District in 1859
The River Thames: London’s Lifeblood
Perry’s Dock Blackwall London
London’s East India Docks The Gateway to the Riches Flowing From Empire
The Charing-Cross Railway Bridge across the Thames, with the Houses of Parliament in the background
The Houses of Parliament
The opening of St. Katherine’s Dock in 1828 marks the end of this period of dock construction in London
Greenwich at high tide
A celebration at Greenwich
Demolition of the old London Bridge
Opening of the New London Bridge 1 August 1831
Railway construction in London, 1839
A Victorian factory
Victorian industrialization: a bread-making machine in 1860
The new printing machine of the “Daily Telegraph” in 1859
The “George Stephenson, ” a locomotive steam engine built in 1860
Old & New
1859 Victorian revelry: the Annual Ball of the Non. Commissioned Officers at the Royal Artillery School, Woolwich
The taming of space and time, the domestication of nature: Deepdale Viaduct, on the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway, 1859
The Doric portico to Euston station, the London terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway; built in 1838
The Strand
Cholera outbreak in London
The Albert Institution in London, a charity which provided baths, schools, workmen’s clubs and other services for the working classes
Traffic jams are nothing new: congestion on the London Bridge in 1859
The British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company offices on Threadneedle Street, London
London’s fashionable Pall Mall
Public improvements: new fountains on the Serpentine in London’s Hyde Park, 1860
The Victorian love of nature: the show of camellias at the Vauxhall Nursery
A vista in Kew Gardens, with the Pagoda in the background
Kew Gardens: The Palm House, with the Pagoda in the background
A new lake in Kew Gardens
The Palm House at Kew Gardens
The Palm House at Kew Gardens
London as a Hub for Scientific Research: The Hunterian Museum in London
The British Museum
Mummies in the British Museum
Elgin Marbles in the British Museum
Not Only Mummies: Zoological Display in the British Museum
Zoological displays in the British Museum
The interior of the Palm House
Interior of the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water-Colours, Old Bond Street (1834)
The Oxford Natural History Museum in 1860
Interior of the Oxford Natural History Museum
Westminster Abbey in the nineteenth century
Charles Darwin’s burial in Westminster Abbey
The Natural History Museum
The Central Hall of the Natural History Museum
Charles Darwin’s statue is unveiled at the Natural History Museum in 1885
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