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Darwin’s life, times and legacy |
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Christmas (that Victorian creation) |
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Darwin the collector |
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Victorian literature, artist and designers, William Morris, Tennyson, Lear, Carroll, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Bronte and other Victorian anniversaries of Societies, births, deaths, discoveries and their changing portraits and hair styles too! The change from printing, painting and engraving styles to photography |
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The Victorian zoo and menagerie |
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Victorian invention of childhood and children’s’ literature, toys, games, pastimes |
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Queen Victoria herself – her life, times and legacy |
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Explorers |
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Advances in Science and technology |
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A list of all the countries visited on the Beagle voyage |
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Marine Biology |
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Animals and plants seen on the Beagle Voyage |
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Barnacles |
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Advances in transport from mail coach and sail (the last days of the packet ship) to train and steamship |
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Coral reefs |
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Dinosaurs, Richard Owen, extinction etc. |
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Carnivorous plants |
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The Creation in Art, in other cultures |
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Earthworms |
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The Evolution of ordinary everyday things. |
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| Why interpret Darwin’s life in stamps? Stamp collectors or Philatelists have a keen sense of history, of kings, queens and everyday things, inventions, commemoration and chemistry and geography, classification, systematics, form and function versus ornament, with stamps superseded by telegraph, telegram, telephone, text message … DNA Genetic mutations, Variation, collecting and stamps |
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