Boo-reaucrats reject Darwin home heritage bid.
The bid to have Down House designated a world Heritage Site has been withdrawn by the UK Government Department of Culture Media and Sport. BBC story here. The people at Unesco were unconvinced of Down House's (photos by Richard Carter) merits, so the outline bid was withdrawn. A revised bid will be submitted during Darwin's anniversary year of 2009.
Down House really is Darwin central: you want to go and stand on the very ground where history was made and the intellectual landscape of the world decisively and permanently changed, Down House is it. If you wanted to fly a flag (a big, proud flag) somewhere in the world to proclaim 'birthplace of evolution' Down House is where the flagpole should be planted. Congrats to all involved in the bid, we wish them well for 2009, will be cheering them on. And as for the distant bureaucrats who nixed it, they deserve a very British obloquy:
A good slap across the kite with a large fish. Saturday update: The Guardian reports too.
Down House really is Darwin central: you want to go and stand on the very ground where history was made and the intellectual landscape of the world decisively and permanently changed, Down House is it. If you wanted to fly a flag (a big, proud flag) somewhere in the world to proclaim 'birthplace of evolution' Down House is where the flagpole should be planted. Congrats to all involved in the bid, we wish them well for 2009, will be cheering them on. And as for the distant bureaucrats who nixed it, they deserve a very British obloquy:
A good slap across the kite with a large fish. Saturday update: The Guardian reports too.
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