QUESTION Did Captain Robert FitzRoy almost throw Charles Darwin off the Beagle because he didn't like his face? There were two barriers in the way of Charles Darwin securing a berth on the Beagle ...

Some of our most famous specimens were collected by Charles Darwin and Captain Robert FitzRoy during the round-the-world voyage of HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836. Accepted on board as a gentlemanly ...

The Shipping Forecast began life exactly 150 years ago, on 24 August 1867, and was originally a series of telegraph messages sent to harbour towns to warn of impending storms. There had been some ...