Working with the Sloane Herbarium today I briefly reunited two small horti sicci that were once bound together. That probably happened in 1740s, and Daniel Solander records that to have been so in the 1760s. And so they remained until rebound in 1880s NHM Botany Richard Coulton

So wonderful to see a collection that is contemporary with the ones I am working on!

My daughter is raising money for two refugee charities and would be grateful for your support. Thank you

Lovely spring walk in one of my local woods on the Wadhurst Clay: Orchis mascula (Early-purple Orchid); Ranunculus auricomus (Goldilocks Buttercup); Lamiastrum galeobdolon (Yellow Archangel) amid Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Bluebell)

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📢Call for papers📷
The deadline for The Gardens Trust New Research Symposium is looming! Get your abstracts in by 30th June!
We welcome abstracts approaching #garden history and #conservation from various academic disciplines. Find out more📷👇

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Recently published!

A new Programming Historian | @[email protected] lesson by Susan Grunewald + Ruth Mostern

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Thanks to Andrew Janco 🐀 @[email protected] and Vincent Ducatteeuw for their reviews, and to Yann Ryan for editing.

Unusual bryophyte habitat in Ashdown Forest, Sussex. Home to: Mnium hornum; Polytrichum formosum; Hypnum cupressiforme; Dicranella heteromalla; and Campylopus introflexus. Does anyone have idea how old this shoe might be? nikelondon BBSBryology Oli Pescott Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔

€5 to spend the day exploring the streets of Venice seems like a bargain when you compare it with the £6 drop-off charge for 10 minutes at the concrete hell of London Gatwick LGW

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Somehow it has taken me two months to get round to writing a blog post about the BBSBryology SE Group field meeting to Crowhurst. Hope it was worth the wait Sussex Botanical Recording Society Sussex Biodiversity

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At my local film society if anyone is in or near Sussex next Friday (full disclosure: I selected the film...)

A fully-funded PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge to explore South Asian natural history collections at the University Museum of Zoology and University Herbarium, co-supervised across the faculties of history, zoology, plant sciences, and history of science!

A sunny spring walk Wakehurst with Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa), Wood Spurge (Euphorbia amygdaloides), Common Dog-violet (Viola riviniana), and Purple Toothwort (Lathraea clandestina)

I'm thrilled to announce the 2nd Global History of Empires Conference, organised by Massimo Bomboni and me. 'Within and Beyond Empires: People, Objects, and Ideas,' to be held in Turin on 26-27 September. Submission deadline on 20 April.

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In 1807, the ship Anne Marie was captured by the British Navy while sailing from the Faroe Islands to Denmark. Five packages and two hundred letters were confiscated from the ship and survived, still sealed, in the Prize Papers. What’s inside? Read below to find out. /1

QMCECS, in association with the British Society for 18th Century Studies, offers an annual short-term visiting fellowship for early career researchers to visit with us and use London resources. Deadline 8 March. Apply here: t.ly/uARHW.