Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, 1840

The Friends of Charles Darwin

The Friends of Charles Darwin were founded in 1994 to campaign for the depiction of their hero, Charles Darwin, on a Bank of England bank note. The great man finally appeared on the new £10 note in November, 2000.

Due to popular demand, we're still taking on new members. So if you can truly say "Charlie is my Darwin", and you'd like to be able to write the letters FCD after your name, why not join us? It's free!

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I caught Richard Dawkins ripping the BBC's toughest and rudest interviewer apart on Radio 4 this morning.
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Downing Street Petition

Sign the online petition to UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to commission a statue of Charles Darwin to occupy the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square. (UK citizens/residents only.)

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The Beagle Project Shop

The Beagle Project aims to celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th birthday by building a sailing replica of HMS Beagle and recreating the Voyage of the Beagle with an international crew of researchers, aspiring scientists and science communicators. The voyage will apply the techniques of 21st century science to Darwin's journey, inspiring a new generation of scientists and promoting the public understanding of evolution and wider science.

The project is accepting donations, so why not get over there and make a small (or large) contribution? Alternatively, why not buy something from their shop?

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Latest Beagle Project Blog posts

A few weeks ago, Michael Barton sent me an email suggesting we add a section to our sidebar providing links to our growi
...to Dispersal of Darwin's Michael Barton, who graduates today from Montana State University in Bozeman with a major in
This morning, still jet-lagging a bit from my trip to New York, I opened my email and, lo and behold, I found this: Kare

Recent Reading

'Your Inner Fish' by Neil Shubin 'The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 7: 1858–1859' by Charles Darwin and his correspondents 'The Eye' by Simon Ings 'The Great Naturalists' by Robert Huxley (ed.) 'Darwin's Origin of Species: a biography' by Janet Browne
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Monday, 12th May, 2008