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Hace 2 días · Survival Situation. Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin by Howard Markel; W. W. Norton, 368 pp., $35. In June 1860, the Oxford Natural History Museum hosted an open plenary session on a new book, The Origin of Species. Two thousand people turned up, a prizefighters’ crowd. The discussion period got seriously out of hand.
Hace 5 días · The house known as Broomfield, on the southwest side of the Common, was occupied for some years by Mr. William Wilberforce, M.P., the distinguished philanthropist; and there his no less distinguished son, Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop successively of Oxford and of Winchester, was born, on the 7th of September, 1805.
Hace 5 días · ALCÁZAR DE SAN JUAN · 09 DE MAYO DE 2012 · 22:00. Pocos conocen aún en España quién fue y qué aportaciones a la historia hizo William Wilberforce. Con el objetivo de dar a conocer no sólo su...
The parish clergy of rural Oxfordshire from the institution of Bishop John Butler (1777) to the translation of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce (1869) with particular reference to their non-ecclesiastical activities.
Hace 2 días · The famous argument at the British Association in 1860 between Thomas Huxley and the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, over the origin of species, is a classic example of the clash between beliefs about the foundations of knowledge.
Hace 20 horas · Michael Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, has published a new book: Atheists and Atheism Before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience (2023). Here I wish to give a brief overview of its contents. Over time I will return to this post to add more content and thoughts. In his…
Hace 2 días · Religion. Opposition and resistance. Related. v. t. e. Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
