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21 Nov 2022
📕Book title assistance needed📖 - a short poll. After too many years basket maker Ruth Stungo and I have nearly finished a book on plants & basketry. it features 300 baskets from Kew collections and lots of pics of plants and basket making. We need help with the title... 1/3
ALT 19th century work basket from the Seycelles, made of young leaflets from the coco de mer palm and heavily ornamented.
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Apr 15
I don't often post here, but an update: Weaving nature: Basketry from plants to people was published this week. It has grown to 380 pages from the original 232, & covers 6000 years of basketry worldwide in 110,000 words & 500 colour images. More details: shop.kew.org/weaving-nature
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And available in the UK near half price from: booksetc.co.uk/books/view/-9…
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30 Nov 2025
Bumper harvest of PhDs available at Kew Gardens right now - on just about every aspect of plants. Varied closing dates December-January: kew.org/science/training-and…
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Mark Nesbitt retweeted
30 Oct 2025
New @ESRC LSE × Kew collaborative PhD: Planting Decolonization 🌱
3.5 yrs from Sept 2026 | fees stipend (£22,780 for 2025/26) | Lead: @KasiaPaprocki
For master’s grads w/ archival or fieldwork experience.
Apply by 14 Jan 2026 👉 zurl.co/TbRfG
@Economicbotany
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Mark Nesbitt retweeted
21 Oct 2025
October 29th. I will attend this fascinating workshop on art, plants🌳and the environment at ENS in Paris🗼with Giancarla Periti, Patricia Falguières and Isabelle Kalinovski #histplants #plantstudies #ConEnvHist #environment #artstudies #histsci #17thcentury join us!
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15 Oct 2025
Interested in the history of herbalism? Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellowship at the incredible Lloyd Library in Cincinnati, closing 1 November: lloydlibrary.org/2021-curtis…
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10 Oct 2025
Interesting, free online meeting on Sustainability in Archives, Heritage and Research Organisations, 22nd October 2025. Book by 17/10: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com…
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7 Oct 2025
Great speakers at this event "The Scent of Time: Omani Frankincense from Antiquity to Innovation", London 29 October 2025: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scent…
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6 Oct 2025
Postdoc opportunity at Kew Gardens: AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions. Closes 10 Dec 25: ukri.org/opportunity/early-c…
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6 Oct 2025
New funded PhD opportunity at Kew Gardens/LSE: Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century. Closes 14/1/26: lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Gradu…
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28 Apr 2025
Hugely excited to announce our forthcoming conference on Gardens & Empires, co-organised with @EnglishHeritage and the @britishlibrary 27-28 June 2025, in person and online. It's a fantastic international line-up of speakers and panellists events.bl.uk/events/gardens-…
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24 Apr 2025
Amazing job at the @Pitt_Rivers: Research Fellow in Biocultural Heritage researching @UniofOxford collections using heritage science. So many possibilities... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
ALT https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-225304 Umbrella of green painted silk with bamboo tube, Myanmar
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21 Apr 2025
Enjoy hunting in libraries and archives? PhD placement "Unearthing the roots of Kew Gardens’ history" with Kew and @HRP_palaces, open to UKRI-funded students. Apply by 11 May, details see link at: kew.org/science/training-and… or DM me
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17 Apr 2025
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…
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18 Mar 2025
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
royalholloway.ac.uk/studying…
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18 Mar 2025
Post-doctoral fellowship 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
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17 Mar 2025
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: herbalhistory.org/home/semin…
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Mark Nesbitt retweeted
19 Feb 2025
On March 25, I present🌿 Plants without Life🌳 at @Concordia University (Montreal) #histphilo #histsci #17century #plantstudies #mechanicallife discussing life, plants and nature
Info here ⤵️
concordia.ca/cuevents/artsci…
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Mark Nesbitt retweeted
19 Dec 2024
🚨NEW ROLE ALERT!🚨
@kewgardens is seeking 2 exceptional individuals for its Board of Trustees. Help tackle biodiversity loss & inspire a love for plants!🍄
👉 Apply now: apply-for-public-appointment…
Know someone that fits the bill? Tag them below ⬇️ or share!
#Defra #Kew #NewRole
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24 Dec 2024
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.histo…
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