1. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Stanford University Darwin Day 2.11.07

2. Darwin’s Shrewsbury ‘The Child is the Father of the Man’ Wordsworth

3. Darwin’s Shrewsbury “I was born a Naturalist” Charles Darwin - Autobiographical Fragment 1838

4. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Robert Waring Darwin 1766–1848 Erasmus Darwin 1731 - 1802

5. Darwin’s Shrewsbury The Darwin Home - The Mount

6. Darwin’s Shrewsbury St Chad’s Church

7. Darwin’s Shrewsbury The Unitarian Church, High Street

8. Darwin’s Shrewsbury

9. 13 Claremont Hill

10. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Library

11. Darwin’s Shrewsbury The Bellstone

12. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Edinburgh Cambridge

13. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Charlie’s Angels

14. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Captain Robert Fitzroy 1805 - 1865

15. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Sir Francis Beaufort 1774 - 1857

16. Darwin’s Shrewsbury George Peacock 1791 - 1858

17. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Revd. John Stevens Henslow 1796 - 1861

18. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Professor Adam Sedgwick 1785 - 1873

19. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Josiah Wedgwood II 1769 - 1843

20. Darwin’s Shrewsbury The Lion Hotel

21. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Voyage of the Beagle 1831 - 1836

22. Darwin’s Shrewsbury

23. Darwin Statue - Shrewsbury School

24. Darwin’s Shrewsbury 2009 Bicentenary of Darwin’s Birth 150th Anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species 300th Anniversary of the smelting of iron with coke at Coalbrookdale

25. Darwin’s Shrewsbury 2009 EVOLUTION - REVOLUTION

26. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Towards 2009 Shrewsbury Darwin Festival (Founded in 2003) Darwin Summer Symposium (2005) Darwin Debate for Shropshire Schools (‘05)

27. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Towards 2009 Acquiring the Birthplace Developing the Music Hall

28. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Towards 2009 The Regional Picture The National Partnership

29. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Towards 2009 The Regional Picture A partnership between: Birmingham - Lichfield - Malvern Shrewsbury - Stoke

30. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Towards 2009 Darwin200 is being developed by a group of highly reputed national partners and aims to celebrate the work of Charles Darwin and his legacy during the period of 2008-9

31. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Towards 2009 Darwin200 membership currently stands at 22 including: BBC - Open University - Natural History Museum English Heritage - Linnean Society - Kew Gardens - Royal Geographical Society - British Association - British Council The Charles Darwin Trust - Bromley Council (Down World Heritage Bid) - National Library of Scotland - Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council

32. Darwin’s Shrewsbury "Along with Shakespeare and Newton, Darwin is Britain 's greatest gift to the world.” Professor Richard Dawkins FRS

33. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Darwin Memorial - Westminster Abbey

34. Darwin’s Shrewsbury The Bishop of Carlisle, Harvey Goodwin, in a memorial sermon preached in the Abbey on the Sunday following the funeral, said “I think that the interment of the remains of Mr Darwin in Westminster Abbey is in accordance with the judgement of the wisest of his countrymen…

35. Darwin’s Shrewsbury It would have been unfortunate if anything had occurred to give weight and currency to the foolish notion which some have diligently propagated, but for which Mr Darwin was not responsible, that there is a necessary conflict between a knowledge of Nature and a belief in God…”. The Bishop of Carlisle, Harvey Goodwin

36. Darwin’s Shrewsbury Jon King Darwin Festival Director jon.king@shrewsbury.gov.uk