#CuriousTravellers #ThomasPennant #GilbertWhite #HistoryOfNaturalHistory #HistoryOfScience #HistoricalResearcher
We had a wonderful time this evening at the launch of our latest exhibition #CuriousMinds which had been created by the fabulous @curioustravellers.bsky.social team!
Explore the relationship between #ThomasPennant and #GilbertWhite told through specimens, books, art, poetry and more!
The Wicker Man of the Druids
An 18th-century illustration of a wicker man. Engraving from A Tour in Wales written by Thomas Pennant (1726-1798).
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Image of a seminar room at Pembrook College, Oxford set up in advance of a talk on the naturalist Thomas Pennant and his collections.
Day 1 at @bsecs.bsky.social #BSECS2025 complete. My talk for @curioustravellers.bsky.social went well, standing room only in the seminar room, and great to be talking about #ThomasPennant and his #NaturalHistoryCollections (OK, I maybe mentioned #GilbertWhite once...twice max ๐)