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When Charles Darwin arrived in Ilkley in October 1859, he had just finished working on his epochal book On the Origin of Species. After his monumental labours, he looked forward to restoring his body and mind in the Northern home of “the water cure”. But his nine-week visit turned out to be socially and intellectually lively, in ways that illuminate the man and his times, and even the enigmatic illness that plagued him. 

In this talk, Mike Dixon and Gregory Radick share new evidence on what Darwin got up to on his journey to the North, what he took away for his future scientific work, and what – according to his wife Emma – was in Ilkley Pudding.