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And available in the UK near half price from: https://t.co/oCXTjQ7r6R

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

📕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

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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

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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

[LSE Geography & Environment @LSEGeography]

New @ESRC LSE × Kew collaborative PhD: Planting Decolonization 🌱

3.5 yrs from Sept 2026 | fees + stipend (£22,780 for 2025/26) | Lead: @KasiaPaprocki

For master’s grads w/ archival or fieldwork experience.

Apply by 14 Jan 2026 👉 https://t.co/M6UaDx3Lh3

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[Fabrizio Baldassarri @FabrizioBaldas6]

October 29th. I will attend this fascinating workshop on art, plants🌳and the environment at ENS in Paris🗼with Giancarla Periti, Patricia Falguières and Isabelle Kalinovski #histplants #plantstudies #ConEnvHist #environment #artstudies #histsci #17thcentury join us!

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

Interested in the history of herbalism? Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellowship at the incredible Lloyd Library in Cincinnati, closing 1 November: https://t.co/hWQqOFDcOq

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

Interesting, free online meeting on Sustainability in Archives, Heritage and Research Organisations, 22nd October 2025. Book by 17/10: https://t.co/EYMeeIs76W

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

Great speakers at this event "The Scent of Time: Omani Frankincense from Antiquity to Innovation", London 29 October 2025: https://t.co/opPkiO1EdK

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

Postdoc opportunity at Kew Gardens: AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions. Closes 10 Dec 25: https://t.co/aaIFhMKhho

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

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

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

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

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

Amazing job at the @Pitt_Rivers: Research Fellow in Biocultural Heritage researching @UniofOxford collections using heritage science. So many possibilities... https://t.co/efzkMDpHfR

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

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

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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

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

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

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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]

[Mark Nesbitt @Economicbotany]

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

[Fabrizio Baldassarri @FabrizioBaldas6]

On March 25, I present🌿 Plants without Life🌳 at @Concordia University (Montreal) #histphilo #histsci #17century #plantstudies #mechanicallife discussing life, plants and nature

Info here ⤵️

https://t.co/hviiQb44jw

[Defra Public Appointments @DefraPublicApps]

🚨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

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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