Writing tagged: ‘sport’

  • Golf: the Darwin connection

    Golf: the Darwin connection

    As we all know, absolutely everything has a Charles Darwin connection. As golf’s 143rd Open Championship tees off in my native Wirral, I find evidence of its Darwin connection on display.

  • 25-Dec-1833: The HMS Beagle Olympics

    25-Dec-1833: The HMS Beagle Olympics

    On Christmas Day 1833, the crew of HMS Beagle held their own ’Olympic Games’ at Port Desire in Patagonia.

  • 01-Mar-1853: Darwin on ice!

    01-Mar-1853: Darwin on ice!

    On 1st March 1853, Charles Darwin wrote to his son William about, erm… playing ice-hockey!