Exhibitions and Recordings

Exhibitions and Recordings

See below for online exhibitions and talk recordings

Talk recordings

Young Sam Butler and the Origins of Modern Running: His Athletic and Illicit Exploits as a Fox and a Hound

World-renowned running author and literary scholar Professor Roger Robinson has discovered that before writing 'The Way of All Flesh'...

Samuel Butler: Victorian Atheist and Controversialist

From the Christian Church to Charles Darwin, Samuel Butler scrutinized and challenged perceived wisdom, and sought to expose hypocrisy and contradiction wherever he found it. Sharing new material...

Over the Range with Samuel Butler (and Some Remarkably Persistent Gnats)

In 1882 Samuel Butler published Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino, a charming travel guide to the little-known churches, villages and alpine ranges of southern...

Consigning the Old Masters to Limbo: Samuel Butler’s Influence on How I Teach Art and Art History

Believing that his art school education and the closed-mindedness of the Victorian establishment had constrained his natural talents, Samuel Butler spent the latter half of his life as a self-...

Samuel Butler, un Amico dell’Italia: The History of a Cultural Partnership

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...

Butler Among the Machines: Evolutionary Literature and Science in Europe, 1859-1902

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.

Evolution, Philosophy and Well-being: A Beginners' Guide

More than 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species, the implications of Darwinism for society and humanity at large have never been so fiercely debated, by philosophers...

 

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