One of my Victorian heroes is Charles Darwin. Experts may disagree but I think the most important letter written to Darwin by a fellow naturalist was from Alfred Russel Wallace in the Spring of 1858. In it he wrote his essay “On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type “. This ‘threat’ to the originality of Darwin’s own big theory motivated him at last to finish and publish On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, after ye

When I visit London, I always try to walk in the footsteps of my Victorian ancestors and around their old haunts. The name of one of them, my gg grandfather ‘William George Lemon’ (1830-1897), can be written anagram-style as ‘Glowing mile, more ale’. One wet, dark evening in 2015 my daughter and I walked the mile (well, a kilometer actually) from Victoria station to enjoy the wine and ale of a small but haunted public house named 'The Grenadier' in Belgravia. The rain-spla

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