BBC Darwin season, 7 July 2008

The BBC has announced a season of landmark content to mark Darwin’s bicentenary.

Darwin's Canopy winner, 17 June 2008

Tania Kovats has been selected as the winning artist to create a new ceiling artwork at the Natural History Museum.

Darwin's Canopy, 3 June 2008

An exhibition of artists’ proposals for a new ceiling artwork inspired by Darwin kicks off the Darwin200 celebrations at the Natural History Museum.

Darwin and the Dodo, 27 May 2008

Street theatre company Desperate Men are bringing Darwin to life in their new piece Darwin and the Dodo - a really dead good show!

Darwin's garden, 23 April 2008

The New York Botanical Garden opens a new exhibition on Darwin’s work with plants on 25 April until mid-June.

Species of Origin workshop , 11 April 2008

The third and final Species of Origin workshop was hosted by the Natural History Museum at the end of January.

Happy birthday Darwin , 12 February 2008

On Tuesday 12 February, Charles Darwin’s 199th birthday, we announce two new programmes responding to Darwin’s ideas.

Darwin Festival 2008, 8 February 2008

This month in Shrewsbury, the annual Darwin Festival celebrates Darwin’s 199th birthday with a month of talks, workshops and art events.

Darwin and the arts, 21 January 2008

The Species of Origin project held its second workshop in Glasgow in December 2007.

Darwin: Into the unknown, 30 November 2007

A new work of classical music celebrating the life and work of Charles Darwin is scheduled by British composer Michael Stimpson for 2009.

Send Darwin a birthday card, 20 November 2007

People around the world will be invited to send a birthday card or letter to Charles Darwin on his 200th birthday in February 2009.

Creative Darwin workshop, 15 October 2007

The Species of Origin project held its first creative workshop at the end of September.

Darwin at Downe bid for 2009, 1 October 2007

The proposed World Heritage Site was the open-air laboratory in which Darwin developed his theory of evolution.

Children of fire opera, 19 September 2007

Children of Fire is a new opera being commissioned by Opera East Productions (OEP).

Zoos get into gear for Darwin bicentenary, 28 August 2007

Zoos and aquariums across the UK are starting to plan events to celebrate Darwin’s bicentenary.

New play about Darwin's dilemmas, 4 August 2007

A New Zealand company is planning to tour a new play about Darwin and the dilemmas he faced in going public about his theory of evolution.

Darwin’s letters online, 4 July 2007

The complete texts of more than 5,000 letters written by and to Charles Darwin are now accessible in a new website launched in May by Cambridge University.

Something fishy: the view from Bath, 14 June 2007 There is a lot of activity down in Bath, where Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution is organising Darwin and Beyond – a programme of themed talks, events and displays throughout 2009.

Chance to see evolution at work, 24 May 2007

A megalab experiment on banded snails will enable everyone to see evolution at work in the natural world around them.

Emma Darwin's diaries go online, 17 April 2007

60 pocket diaries documenting the daily life of the Darwin household are now accessible to all through Cambridge University's Charles Darwin online website.

Wallace's treasures go online, 13 April 2007

Lost treasures that belonged to Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of the process of evolution by natural selection, are online for the first time through the Natural History Museum's website.

Darwin drama, 10 April 2007

A new dramatisation of Darwin's letters was performed on 25 March as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.

Darwin's birthplace hosts annual festival, 1 April 2007

The fifth annual Darwin festival took place in February this year in Shrewsbury, Darwin’s birthplace.

Darwin becomes comic strip hero, 27 March 2007

A comic history of Darwin and the Beagle voyage has been commissioned by the Bristol Cultural Development Partnership.

Darwin film for bicentenary, 3 March 2007

A new film of Darwin’s life is being planned with a proposed release date of 2009 to coincide with the bicentenary of his birth.