Last week I was invited to assist with an MSt class for @ox.ac.uk Faculty of History at @morethanadodo.bsky.social to discuss working as a historian with natural history specimens #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfScience #MuseumResearch.
Delighted to announce that I have been elected to the board of trustees for Gilbert White’s House & Gardens @gilbertwhites.bsky.social ! #Trusteeship #GilbertWhite #NewRole #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #MuseumLife
A huge thank you to everyone who came along and made it such a good day and for such good conversation. Special thanks to the CTP team, and our wonderful curators who brought out some of Pennants specimens from the collections. #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #NHMScience #Museums #HistoryOfScience
Flying squirrel engraved by Alfred Joseph Annedouche.
Book: ‘Voyage dans l’Inde’ by Victor Jacquemont. Paris: Firmin Didot frères, 1841.
University of Chicago Crerar Library.
#scienceillustration #animalart #sciart #historyofnaturalhistory
#CuriousTravellers #ThomasPennant #GilbertWhite #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfScience #HistoricalResearcher
It’s been a beautiful day here in Selborne, and we’re set up and ready to go for the Gilbert White and His Contexts conference!
gilbertwhite.org.uk
#GilbertWhiteConference #GilbertWhite #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoricalResearch
On Thursday I got to view parts of the Du Bois herbarium at @ox.ac.uk. An incredible collection, and, although disbound and reordered in the 19th, fascinating examples of 17thC. herbaria and pre-Linnean nomenclature! #Herbarium #17thCentury #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoricalResearch
Day 2 of #NatSCA2025 @natsca.bsky.social is up and running! I’m speaking later on behalf of @curioustravellers.bsky.social and the @nhm-london.bsky.social Thomas Pennant Collections #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #NaturalHistoryMuseums
Original watercolors of bats by John Gerrard Keulemans for ‘Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar,’ edited by Alfred Grandidier, and published in Paris, 1875-1899.
McGill Rare Books 🦇
#scientificillustration #bats #BatAppreciationDay #naturalhistory #historyofnaturalhistory
How yesterday started vs how it finished! Yesterday we installed the Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White exhibition from the @curioustravellers.bsky.social project at @gilbertwhites.bsky.social. It looks amazing and is on until 22nd June, do come and visit!
#HistoryOfNaturalHistory
Frogs from August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s ‘Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium,’ published in Nuremberg, 1758.
I saw this at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Special Collections library.
#worldfrogday #frogs #naturalhistory #bookhistory #rarebooks #historyofnaturalhistory
This little volume in the @orieloxford.bsky.social archives contains Gilbert White’s accounts for his bachelors and masters degrees. Notes like these provide a fascinating insight into the day to day life of a person, and how they change 🎓📝🧾🍷🍓🍋📚🐴🐶 #HistoricalResearch #HistoryOfNaturalHistory
Whales from ‘Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches: nach William Jardine, nebst einem Vorworte von Karl Vogel' by Friedrich Treitschke, Pesth: C. A. Hartleben, 1840-43.
These illustrations are also found in ‘The Naturalist’s Library.’
#WorldWhaleDay #whales #historyofnaturalhistory
Toads from August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s “Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium,” published in Nuremberg, 1758.
I saw this at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Special Collections.
#naturalhistory #scientificillustration #historyofscience #herpetology #historyofnaturalhistory #rarebooks
Passiflora × violacea drawn and engraved by William Clark for ‘Flora Conspicua’ by Richard Morris. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.
I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections.
#naturalhistory #rarebooks #botanicalart #historyofnaturalhistory
Today is #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #IDWGS2025. I get to work with many amazing women in #science & #HistSci
I’m on my research today though, so here are some of the women in #GilbertWhite’s life: gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk/women-gilber... #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoricalResearch
On Friday during a tour for @ox.ac.uk #HistoryOfMedicineScienceAndTechnology masters students we were shown what I think is the oldest herbarium in @nhm-london.bsky.social. Dating from 1603, the state of preservation is incredible! #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfBotany
Backstage at the V&A today getting to use this rather brilliant bit of kit for an exciting project with @linneansociety. More on that another time. 🩻
(OK, didn’t actually get to use the kit, the excellent Sarah at the V&A did that).
#HistoryOfNaturalHistory #MuseumTechnology #MuseumResearch
It's Monday of Week 1 of Hillary Term at @oxforduniversity.bsky.social and time for me to plunge into the depths of my Transfer of Status 😬. As I'm thinking all things historical, today's #BookOfTheWeek is one of my favourite #HistoryOfNaturalHistory books. 📚 uk.bookshop.org/a/14242/9780...
I’ve got my ticket, you should come along too! #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoricalResearch #EarlyCareerResearcher #DoctoralStudent
This was a fascinating talk, do go and have a watch #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfBotany #ArtOfNaturalHistory
Had a great evening with Oxford Mammal Group at @morethanadodo.bsky.social 🙂 #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #SciComs #PublicLecture #18thCStudies
I had great fun on Wednesday night at
@pubsci.bsky.social talking about #GilbertWhite to a packed audience! Beers and natural history? I think Gilbert would have liked it too 😂🍻😉 #ScienceCommunication #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfScience #ScienceInThePub @bshsnews.bsky.social
There's just 14 spaces left for my PubSci talk tomorrow evening, grab your ticket and come along! #GilbertWhite #HistoryOfNaturalHistory www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-once-a...
Come and join us in the pub for this month's #PubSci where I'll be wittering on about White (Gilbert's beer is highly likely to get a mention!) @gilbertwhite.bsky.social @bshsnews.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfScience
Onwards now to new adventures in the #HistoryOfNaturalHistory as I'll be starting a DPhil with Faculty of History, University of Oxford and #OrielCollege from October! #GraduateStudent #OxfordStudent #History
On Friday I'll be talking at the @bshsnews.bsky.social conference (albeit via Zoom) as part of a panel 'Natural History in the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850' led by Edwin Rose. Who's coming along?
conference.bshs.org.uk
#HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfScience #EighteenthCentury
