Cain, Joe

Head of Department, and
Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Prof Cain's research interests include the history of evolutionary studies, Darwin and Darwinism, history of science in London, history of natural history and natural history films.
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Darwin projects

Darwin's in the Hospital

We have several Darwin-related projects on the go.
Here are some.

A classic piece of scholarship

Freeman's Darwin and Gower Street

In 1982, UCL mounted a Darwin exhibit, organised by Richard Freeman, one of the great Darwin bibliographers.

Richard Broke Freeman. 1982. Darwin and Gower Street: An Exhibition in the Flaxman Gallery of the Library. University College London. Monday 19 April 1982 (London: University College London).
pdf original and pdf text

In 2008, UCL mounted a similar exhibit,

UCL. 2008. Charles Darwin of Gower Street (London: UCL Library Services)
exhibit catalogue and online exhibition

In 1982, UCL mounted a Darwin exhibit, organised by Richard Freeman, one of the great Darwin bibliographers.Richard Broke Freeman. 1982. Darwin and Gower Street: An Exhibition in the Flaxman Gallery of the Library. University College London. Monday 19 April 1982 (London: University College London). pdf original and pdf textIn 2008, UCL mounted a similar exhibit,UCL. 2008. Charles Darwin of Gower Street (London: UCL Library Services) exhibit catalogue and online exhibition

Darwin in public

Darwin exhibition

Darwin exhibition opens at University College Hospital London

Visit our exhibition at University College Hospital (location), between end-August 2009 and mid-February 2010. More information here once we're installed.

This is a collaborative project between
Dr Carol Reeves (WTC)
Dr Sharon Messenger (WTC)
Dr Joe Cain (STS). 

It was funded by WTC; no NHS funds have been used.

Visit the exhibition website (link)

  Darwin

Darwin in London: Homes and Haunts

Lecture at Royal College of Surgeons. May 2009

(link to 'listen again') 

Darwin blue plaque on Gower Street

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