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Spectacular day at the incredible Kirstenbosh Botanical Garden in Cape Town
Bumper harvest of PhDs on offer at Kew Gardens at the moment - on many aspects of plants including ethnobotany and humanities approaches. Closing dates December -January: www.kew.org/science/trai...
Interested in the history of herbalism? Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellowship at the incredible Lloyd Library in Cincinnati, closing 1 November: lloydlibrary.org/2021-curtis-...
Interesting, free online meeting on Sustainability in Archives, Heritage and Research Organisations, 22nd October 2025. Book by 17/10: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/bI7iCLvRZH...
Great speakers at this event "The Scent of Time: Omani Frankincense from Antiquity to Innovation", London 29 October 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scent-...
New funded PhD opportunity at Kew Gardens/LSE: Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century. Closes 14/1/26: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
Postdoc opportunity at Kew Gardens: AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions. Closes 10 Dec 25: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
So excited to announce our conference on Gardens & Empires, with @englishheritage.bsky.social and the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June 2025, in person/online. Fantastic global speakers and panellists. Do come! Tickets £15-£40 in person; £5-£15 online. events.bl.uk/events/garde...
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Studentship available to study MA Curating Collections and Heritage. Deadline 30th June 2025.
Open to applicants from the African or Asian diaspora or a marginalised ethnicity. The course is a collaboration between Brighton & Hove Museums and University of Brighton. Further info: lnkd.in/e8CJhtey
Umbrella from Myanmar: https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-225304
Amazing job at the @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social : Research Fellow in Biocultural Heritage researching @ox.ac.uk collections using heritage science. So many possibilities... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Enjoy hunting in libraries and archives? PhD placement "Unearthing the roots of Kew Gardens’ history" with @rbgkew.bsky.social and HRP, open to UKRI-funded students. Apply by 11 May, details see link at: kew.org/science/trai... or DM me
For UK undergraduates: Sandwich ('industrial placement') Intern: Enhancing Kew's collections. Spend a year curating, enhancing and sharing our ethnobotanical collections. Closes 11 May 2025 (+ similar posts in other teams) careers.kew.org/vacancy/unde...
PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
And the Montpelier collection includes donations from Kew! We should talk...
Post-doctoral fellowships available at Kew, closing 20 April. For proposals covering plant-people relationships, broadly defined, and using methods from the humanities, social sciences and life sciences see careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-...
Informal enquiries: planthumanities@kew.org
Busy preparing my talk for Wednesday 19th's celebration of 15 years of the Herbal History Research Network: Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice. It's online - booking at: www.herbalhistory.org/home/seminars/
Remembering Mark Whittow, historian extraordinaire, who died on Christmas Eve 2017, seen next to his beloved red Land Rover on our drive London-Istanbul in 1991. The Romanian passes were snowy but we made it through on a truly memorable journey. Memories: rememberingmarkwhittow.history.ox.ac.uk
Sorry to hear of the passing of Andrea Tanner, archivist @Fortnums who have been donors of tea & groceries to @kewgardens Economic Botany Collection since 1855; Andrea continued this. @Fortnums archive was destroyed in WW2 so our collections esp. precious aim25.com/dr-andrea-ta...
Great day at the London Archives sharing stories from the Kew Archives around plants and trade and London ports in the Victorian era. I offered a quirky story of how some London streets were once paved with sweet gum timber (Liquidambar styriciflua) from N America.
And the Norton Simon Museum
Many thanks to Huntington staff for the invitation and for showing me around. Very inspiring interactions of botany and humanities. Generous fellowship programme: huntington.org/fellowships
A brief side excursion to the Arts & Crafts Gamble House
Extensive succulent and palm gardens
The vast Chinese garden, with ethnobotanical displays
The newly installed but 300-year old Shoya House illustrating traditional agriculture in Japan
The historic and beautiful Japanese garden. I lingered here a long time.
I had a few days to explore the extraordinary holdings of the library and galleries