Fully funded PhD: JUST ACQUISITIONS? LAW & ETHICS OVER TIME in KEW'S OVERSEAS PLANT COLLECTING HISTORY @rbgkew.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social
#Law offer @ukri.org #AHRC funded studentship Deadline: May 8 More: royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
@thelawsociety.bsky.social #justice
#KEW in #JAMAICA by @hcraddock.bsky.social - 2nd talk in #Gardens-Trust #online seminar series #Empires, #Plants & #Gardening' Jan 27 10-11:30 GMT More info & booking: eventbrite.co.uk/e/empires-pl... @kewgardens.bsky.social @UkNatArchives
Check out our @planthums-uk.bsky.social web pages at kew.org/science/inte...
Learn who we are, what we do, and how you can work with us on #PlantHumanities #research @rbgkew.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
#PLANTATION #SCIENCE & #EMPIRE in the 20TH CENTURY: 3.5 yrs funded PhD @LSE & @rbgkew.bsky.social supervised by Kasia Kaprocki & @marknesbitt.bsky.social Details: lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
It's here!!! 200 pages of #research articles, #narrative #nonfiction, #poetry & #reviews - all on #trees! Many thanks to @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, @treeseeker.bsky.social & all our contributors url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9ZIoCojPZH...
#PLANTS, #MEMORY, #BELONGING free online event October 8, 2025, 16.00-18.00 GMT. Sponsored by #Oak_Spring_Garden_Foundation & @plantperspectives.bsky.social Featuring: Maria Thereza Alves, Jessica J Lee, Marcello Di Paola, Goldie Poblador. Register: www.osgf.org/programs-and...
Treetop Walkway and Temperate House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew © Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Applications now open @rbgkew.bsky.social for @ahrc2025.bsky.social funded #ECR #FELLOWSHIPS in #CULTURAL & #HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS 2yr fellowships up to £312.5k Contact: planthumanities@kew.org Deadline 10 Dec 2025 ukri.org/opportunity/... #interdisciplinary #plant_humanities #early-career
Call for papers: "#Plant #Fever: #Politics, #Poetics & Pleasures of #Houseplants" conference Copenhagen 2–3 Dec 2025 Abstracts to: plantfever2025@cc.au.dk by SEPTEMBER 15 #Ordrupgaard @au_dk @ucph.bsky.social @veluxstiftung.bsky.social @hiddenplantstories.bsky.social #Hirschsprung_Collection
Front and back cover of Plant Perspectives vol 2.2 with image of installation 'Of the Oak' by Marshmallow Laser Feast in Kew Gardens 2025 on the cover.
Amherstia nobilis, hand-coloured lithograph by Maxim Gauci, based on drawing by Vishnuprasad from Nathaniel Wallich, Plantae Asiaticae Rariores 1 (1830).
What is the most beautiful flowering tree in the world? Find out in my essay for Plant Perspectives, ed. by the wonderful Caroline Cornish and Christina Hourigan.
Also features a brilliant essay on ackee by Heather Craddock,
@planthums-uk.bsky.social @treeseeker.bsky.social @hcraddock.bsky.social
#JUTE: THE GOLDEN #FIBRE OF #BENGAL - A #BRITISH #EMPIRE MONOPOLY Project completion celebration - #book launch, #exhibition, discussions eventbrite.co.uk/e/project-co... @StepneyCommunityTrust @HeritageLotteryFund @ArtPavilionMileEnd
BOOKING NOW OPEN!! In-person: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/confe... & Live-stream: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/confe...
SAVE THE DATE! 26th-27th Sept
@NationalGallery
: "CREATING THE #MUSEUM" #conference convened by
@nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social & @mghg.bsky.social 2 days of talks & discussions from researchers & museum practitioners More: mghg.info/forthcoming-...
@paulmelloncentr.bsky.social #bicentenary
'Of the Oak' 2025: digital art installation by Marshmallow Laser Feast @rbgkew.bsky.social
Coming this autumn!! #PLANT #PERSPECTIVES 2(2) special issue: #Tree #Cultures & #Arboreal #Humanities eds
@treeseeker.bsky.social & Caroline Cornish #research articles, narrative #non_fiction, #poetry & reviews whp-journals.co.uk/PP @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
It's a wrap! #EastAsia & #EconomicBotany symposium
@kewgardens.bsky.social 2 days of amazing papers, talks, tours & delegates - thanks to all! @rhulhistory.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
@manchstm.bsky.social @lund-university.bsky.social
Fantastic news!
Many congratulations to Caroline Cornish on receiving the SHNH President’s Award for promoting and improving accessibility, inclusivity and diversity to the study of the history of natural history: shnh.org.uk/news/announc...
@planthums-uk.bsky.social
Reminder!! Deadline for this CDA is May 16:
#GARDENS & #EMPIRES - booking open! International conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June Convened by #BL, @rbgkew.bsky.social & @englishheritage.bsky.social Speakers include
@advollyr.bsky.social @sathnam.bsky.social & @corinnefowler.bsky.social
Booking: events.bl.uk/events/garde...
#KEW_GARDENS / #WAKEHURST based #POSTDOC #RESEARCH #FELLOWSHIP, 4 yrs, #interdisciplinary applications welcome, deadline 20 April 2025. More: careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-... @kewgardens.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social @plantperspectives.bsky.social @natsca.bsky.social
#plant_humanities
Absolute peach of a PhD!! #PLANTS & their PRODUCTS: #BIOCULTURAL #COLLECTIONS @rbgkew.bsky.social & #SOUTH_KENSINGTON #MUSEUM in LONG 19TH CENTURY Fully funded studentship. More: royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her... @mghg.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social @rhul-cvs.bsky.social #V&A #botany
REMINDER: Deadline for abstracts 14/03!!
CREATING the MUSEUM: EXPLORING the MUSEUM IMPULSE in LOCAL, REGIONAL & NATIONAL CONTEXTS
@musgalhistgroup annual conference @NationalGallery 26th-27th Sept 2025 Details: mghg.info/forthcoming-...
CFP: CREATING the MUSEUM: EXPLORING the MUSEUM IMPULSE in LOCAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS
MGHG Annual Conference in collaboration with National Gallery 26th-27th Sept '25. Details: mghg.info/forthcoming-... @rhulgeography.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org @musethnogroup.bsky.social
Join us for a conference on "Textile Ecologies", intersections between textiles and the environment, and the past, present, and future of cloth, February 5-7, free online:
full program and link to register: www.leuphana.de/institute/ip...
#envhist #textiles #ecologies #envhum #sustainability
REMINDER: Deadline for applications Feb 2!!
CfP: PRACTISING #VEGETAL #GEOGRAPHIES: #CREATIVITIES & BEYOND @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference 2025 Abstracts to mingcan.rong@bristol.ac.uk & m.j.beach@qmul.ac.uk by Feb 24 2025 More: rgs.org/research/ann... @kewgardens.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk
Kadeem Oak: PRESSED #FLOWERS of the #EMPIRE - film screening event @ Somerset House 6 Feb 2025 18.45 GMT + DJ Lamin Fofana + #ethnobotanist Jonn Gale. Book: somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/hom...
@kewgardens.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
@linneansociety.bsky.social
#SOIL - THE WORLD AT OUR FEET new #exhibition 23 Jan-13 Apr 2025 @Somerset House inc: Merlin Sheldrake @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social Anya Gallaccio @dianascherer.bsky.social @elzehesse.bsky.social
Book: www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/soil @kewgardens.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
Thanks we’ll make sure we circulate details
#GARDENS & #EMPIRES: conference organised by @rbgkew.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social & @britishlibrary.bsky.social
27-28 June 2025. Call for papers: gardensandempires.tiiny.site @rhulgeography.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social
REMINDER! Deadline for this fully-funded PhD is January 17!
(RE)DISCOVERING NATURAL HISTORY: symposium of historians, archivists, curators, artists @linneansociety.bsky.social 11 Feb '25: @advollyr.bsky.social @prmlaurita.bsky.social @willtullett.bsky.social @trichocolea.bsky.social More: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-... @rhulgeography.bsky.social