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National Portrait Gallery announces reopening date in June

The National Portrait Gallery in London has set the date it will reopen three years on from its closure due to renovation. The public can enjoy the improvements, the biggest development since the building in St Martin’s Place, close to Trafalgar ...

15 Dec 2022 at 11:16

National Portrait Gallery will get new wing as part of refurbishment

The National Portrait Gallery in London will get a new wing as part of its refurbishment when it reopens in 2023. The Blavatnik Wing will host more than one hundred years of British portraits in nine galleries as part of the gallery’s Inspiring ...

23 Nov 2022 at 12:09

Vast personal library of Charles Darwin uncovered for the first time

The vast personal library of influential naturalist and biologist Charles Darwin is to be published in its entirety online for the first time. Scientists said the collection – the majority of which was unknown or unpublished until now – shows ...

11 Feb 2024 at 16:00

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Where to see the wildlife heroes of Sir David Attenborough’s Planet Earth III

Nearly two decades since the first Planet Earth programme was screened, a new series of the landmark nature franchise is set to impress, shock and captivate audiences. A lot has changed in that time: technology has improved but challenges to ...

16 Oct 2023 at 09:14

Charles Darwin notebooks that went missing for 20 years are to go on display

Two Charles Darwin manuscripts anonymously returned to Cambridge University Library more than 20 years after they were found to be missing are to go on public display for the first time this century. The precious items were discovered to be ...

08 Jul 2022 at 10:12

Arts & Entertainment

'Direct connection with the past' - Charles Darwin notebooks thought to be missing to go on display

08 Jul 2022 at 17:33

Meet Fernanda the giant tortoise from a species believed extinct a century ago

Scientists have reported that a rare species of giant tortoise thought to have died out more than a century ago is not in fact extinct. Genetic research has shown that a female specimen discovered on one of the Galapagos Islands three ...

09 Jun 2022 at 17:00

Darwin’s voyage retraced in hope of creating next generation of conservationists

Nearly 200 years after Charles Darwin developed the theory of evolution while sailing around South America, a team of naturalists are hoping to create a new generation of conservationists by retracing the famous voyage. Setting off ...

12 Aug 2023 at 16:48

Visitors told to experience historic sites with senses as phones ‘overstimulate’

Visitors to historical landmarks have been told to use their senses to imagine the past as today’s culture is “overstimulated” with the continued use of mobile phones. English Heritage has put up signs to encourage visitors to use ...

09 Jun 2023 at 00:01

Calling cards of top Victorian horticulturalists go on display online

Photographic calling cards of the leading lights of Victorian horticulture, described as the “original social media”, have gone on display online. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has made its collection of 19th century ...

16 Aug 2024 at 00:01

New species of Galapagos finch ‘can arise after just six consecutive droughts’

Six consecutive droughts is all it takes for a new species of finch to emerge in the Galapagos islands, scientists have said. The Galapagos is a province in Ecuador well known for the diversity of finches. These birds are ...

10 Oct 2024 at 19:00

Just Stop Oil protesters charged over spray-paint on Charles Darwin’s grave

Just Stop Oil protesters charged over spray-paint on Charlies Darwin’s grave

Two women have been charged with criminal damage after chalk paint was sprayed on Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey. The words “1.5 is dead” were written in orange on the 19th century biologist’s grave on ...

14 Jan 2025 at 12:33

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