Another new @rbgkew.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social PhD, fully-funded: Just acquisitions? Law and ethics over time in Kew’s overseas plant collecting history. Closes 8 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

Spectacular day at the incredible Kirstenbosh Botanical Garden in Cape Town

Available PhD opportunities Discover our funded PhD opportunities in environmental science and plant humanities and learn about our involvement with a range of Doctoral Training Partnerships and similar schemes.

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-...

‘Places, Plants and People’ an event from PPPAN and ARA ESG Discussions exploring how archives, heritage, and research organisations are addressing sustainability and environmental engagement.

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-...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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...

Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025 Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.

Postdoc opportunity at Kew Gardens: AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions. Closes 10 Dec 25: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Gardens and Empires | British Library The histories of plants and gardens are deeply entangled with the histories of empires. This conference investigates the impacts of these global connection

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...

Wow

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...

Placements for PhD Students We welcome PhD placement students to learn from our experts and make real contributions to our work at Kew Gardens in London or Wakehurst in Sussex.

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

Seminars & Events Our next online seminar  Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice will be held on Wednesday, 19 March 2025.  This event will be live streamed and recorded. Tickets will be availab…

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

Dr Andrea Tanner - Archivist, Author, Historian and Mentor (1956-2024) - AIM25 An announcement from Dr Geoff Browell, Chair of AIM25, on the death of our beloved friend and colleague, Dr Andrea Tanner. “It is with deep sadness that I have to report the death of Dr Andrea Tanner,...

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

Fellowships | The Huntington The Huntington Library awards over 150 research fellowships annually. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at The Huntington and to participate in, and make a contr...

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.