📕Book title assistance needed📖 - a short poll. After too many years basket maker Ruth Stungo and I have nearly finished a book on plants & basketry. it features 300 baskets from Kew collections and lots of pics of plants and basket making. We need help with the title... 1/3
I don't often post here, but an update: Weaving nature: Basketry from plants to people was published this week. It has grown to 380 pages from the original 232, & covers 6000 years of basketry worldwide in 110,000 words & 500 colour images. More details: https://t.co/bJqufulwIN
Bumper harvest of PhDs available at Kew Gardens right now - on just about every aspect of plants. Varied closing dates December-January: https://t.co/fOIOIhaDVm
Interested in the history of herbalism? Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellowship at the incredible Lloyd Library in Cincinnati, closing 1 November: https://t.co/hWQqOFDcOq
Interesting, free online meeting on Sustainability in Archives, Heritage and Research Organisations, 22nd October 2025. Book by 17/10: https://t.co/EYMeeIs76W
New funded PhD opportunity at Kew Gardens/LSE: Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century. Closes 14/1/26: https://t.co/mhset3XyJO
Hugely excited to announce our forthcoming conference on Gardens & Empires, co-organised with @EnglishHeritage and the @britishlibrary 27-28 June 2025, in person and online. It's a fantastic international line-up of speakers and panellists https://t.co/WEqQ0M1zVg
Amazing job at the @Pitt_Rivers: Research Fellow in Biocultural Heritage researching @UniofOxford collections using heritage science. So many possibilities... https://t.co/efzkMDpHfR
Enjoy hunting in libraries and archives? PhD placement "Unearthing the roots of Kew Gardens’ history" with Kew and @HRP_palaces, open to UKRI-funded students. Apply by 11 May, details see link at: https://t.co/ErW5C2xGNs 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) https://t.co/1F7wRBZ7fu
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
https://t.co/YBkwW3Uqna
Post-doctoral fellowship 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 https://t.co/IGxZD6SKDH
Informal enquiries: [email protected]
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: https://t.co/V8O8JrFcxX
🚨NEW ROLE ALERT!🚨
@kewgardens is seeking 2 exceptional individuals for its Board of Trustees. Help tackle biodiversity loss & inspire a love for plants!🍄
👉 Apply now: https://t.co/hLCdTEY2OE
Know someone that fits the bill? Tag them below ⬇️ or share!
#Defra#Kew#NewRole
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: https://t.co/cztQ7FiDEr