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978-1-906267-13-1. Wyatt and Waring. 1854. The Byzantine and Romanesque Court in the Crystal Palace

Byzantine and Romanesque Court (Crystal Palace Guide 4) | EGP

Detailed description of this exhibition, together with a brief survey of architectural and design history of Byzantium and other parts of Christian Europe, including German and French Romanesque. Additional notes are provided on Irish art […]

Raphael's The School of Athens, or Scuola di Atene, c. 1509-11

Italian Court (Crystal Palace Guide 7) | EGP

Catalogue for the Italian Court, one of the great courts in the 1854 Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Detailed description of the exhibition’s sculpture, facades, and paintings. Wyatt and Waring give a synoptic history of the […]

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 […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies

Descended from Darwin – Context for the Evolutionary Synthesis

Using LLMs to query 1939 International Genetical Congress

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

Historical Significance of George Gaylord Simpson’s Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944)

Genetics: Sewall Wright Taught Me, volume 2 | EGP

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Pterodactyl statues in Crystal Palace Dinosaurs | missing

Studio for Crystal Palace Dinosaurs: Enter The Extinct Animals Model-Room

Gideon Mantell’s 1851 Guide to Fossils at British Museum

New Year’s Eve Dinner in the Iguanodon at Crystal Palace 31 December 1853

Reverie at the Crystal Palace – 1854 poster in Punch magazine

History of Science

Great Exhibition As a Lesson in Victorian Taste, by Ralph Nicholson Wornum (1851)

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

Robert Fitzroy is buried in Upper Norwood Cemetery (photographs)

History of the Great Exhibition (1851) from The Art-Journal Illustrated Catalogue

Edward Turner was a Creole. So what?

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Society for the Study of Speciation: Bibliographic Analysis Using LLM

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Crystal Palace Guides | Euston Grove Press

Byzantine and Romanesque Court (Crystal Palace Guide 4) | EGP

Italian Court (Crystal Palace Guide 7) | EGP

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