Samuel Butler first visited Italy in the winter of 1843, aged just eight. Fifty-five years later, in 1898, he recorded in his notebook his...
Events and Exhibitions
Online Exhibitions
Click on the titles to read a summary, view images of some of the editions in the Butler Collection, and find links to free online...
Samuel Butler studied Classics at St John’s College from 1854 to 1858, and after graduating in 1859 he moved to New Zealand, where he...
In 1859 the naturalist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, changing forever the...
‘…of all dead men Handel has had the largest place in my thoughts. In fact I should say he and his music have been the central fact...
‘One’s thoughts fly so fast that one must shoot them; it is no use trying to put salt on their tails.’ -Samuel Butler, Notebooks...
Talk Recordings
Literary scholar, author and international runner Professor Roger Robinson pursues Samuel Butler through a fascinating paperchase of...
Sharing new material from his forthcoming book, Dr Simon Heffer sheds light on Samuel Butler's motivations and his role as a Victorian controversialist.
This talk was given at the third...
PhD student Julia Powles tells the tale of her adventure in southern Switzerland and northern Italy, when she retraced Samuel Butler's footsteps using the charming 1882 travel guide Alps and...
Join Dr Clarice Zdanski, practising painter and Artist in Residence at Franklin College, Switzerland, to...
Cristiano Turbil offers an insight into the very particular relationship between Samuel Butler and Italy, describing how Butler's work on the Sicilian origin of the Odyssey and his idea of...
Dr Elinor Shaffer, co-editor of volume three of The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe, discusses how European responses to Darwin have shed new light on the works of Samuel Butler.
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Join philosopher Dr Ben Irvine for a whistle-stop tour of some of the major objections to, and misreadings of, Darwin's theory of natural...
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