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Ethnology is at the heart of Crystal Palace Guide number 13

Natural History Department: Ethnology, Zoology, Botany (Crystal Palace Guide 13) | EGP

The “Natural History Court” had two organising themes. First, ethnology – a speciality in anthropology emphasising comparisons between human cultures – was a new discipline in the 1850s. Displays included material from thirteen exotic human groups […]

George Baxter print showing Crystal Palace 1854 Sydenham view from the north

Guide to Crystal Palace and Park from 1871 | EGP

The Crystal Palace Company published a Guide to Crystal Palace and Park nearly every year in the first few decades after opening their attraction in Sydenham in 1854. These guides described main attractions – especially […]

Joshua Reynolds two statues in courtyard of Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London

Portrait Gallery (Crystal Palace Guide 2) | EGP

This guide to the Portrait Gallery in Crystal Palace lists names of those chosen for display, plus biographical information. In effect, this offers a directory of those held in high esteem by mid-Victorian society. It’s […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Patricide in the Repeated Assassination of George Gaylord Simpson

Descended from Darwin – Context for the Evolutionary Synthesis

George Gaylord Simpson’s “Night Thoughts on Leaving the American Museum of Natural History”

Joseph Henry Woodger (1894-1981) Papers at University College London (UCL)

George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) bibliography

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Reverie at the Crystal Palace – 1854 poster in Punch magazine

New Crystal Palace at Sydenham – 1852 – First Look

Why Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Created Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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Queen Victoria Visited Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

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Sewall Wright Taught Me series: Evolution, Genetics, Physiological Genetics | EGP

No Ordinary Space: UCL Grant Museum | EGP

Textile Machinery of the Great Exhibition (1851) by Lewis D.B. Gordon

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Natural History Department: Ethnology, Zoology, Botany (Crystal Palace Guide 13) | EGP

Guide to Crystal Palace and Park from 1871 | EGP

Portrait Gallery (Crystal Palace Guide 2) | EGP