Kate Teltscher

Cultural historian and writer. Author of Palace of Palms, a Times and New Statesman Book of the Year. Now posting on Blue Sky @kateteltscher.bsky.social

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

Delighted to read this @Newstatesman!
@kewgardens @Kew_LAA @GinaFullerlove @Economicbotany @BillJBaker @kewbookshop

[George Morley @georgeisediting]

Thrilled for @KateTeltscher that the great Claire Tomalin has chosen #PalaceofPalms as a book of the year in @NewStatesman. ‘Enthralling’ she says - and she’s right.

[Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier]

Historians of colonial science / the environment, Lego is coming at you for Christmas.

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

Very proud of my (former) PhD student!
Many congratulations, Dr Craddock!🙌🎉🥂
@PlantHums_UK @Kew_LAA

[Heather Craddock @HR_Craddock]

Successfully defended my PhD thesis 'Kew's Colonial Archive: A Plant Humanities Approach to the Caribbean Miscellaneous Reports 1850-1928' 🌿

Thanks to my examiners @MilesOgborn & @marylshannon and supervisors @KateTeltscher, @medievalismist, @Kiri_R_J & @Haywoodprof!

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

Houses built of mycelium brick: a wonderful, environmentally-friendly project from Namibia. https://t.co/eLBwSNXLXE

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

Libraries are such important places - and not just for the books.
A beautifully observed and surprisingly moving piece by @AidaE

[The Guardian Long Read @gdnlongread]

‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books, by @AidaE https://t.co/oWeP5UHbJO

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

A fun read! Some delightful ice cream van lore, including the ‘international parental conspiracy’ that the ice cream van jingle announced that stocks had run out (my mother-in-law was an early adopter in 1960s-70s Birmingham).

[Owen Davies @odavies9]

Ice cream vans. As summer finally arrives in the UK why not have a read of this FREE article exploring the history & folklore of ice cream vans - their chimes, ice cream & urban legends!

https://t.co/51sCNi2dsL

[PrisonReadingGroups @PRG_UK]

We are delighted to begin our Prison Reading Groups 25-year celebration with our keynote speaker, British-Iranian author, the incredible Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. #ReadinginPrison25

[Heather Craddock @HR_Craddock]

Very pleased to share that the article on the opium poppy I co-authored for the Plant Humanities Lab is now live! Featuring archival materials from @Kew_LAA

[Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford]

Start the Week from the wonderful @hayfestival on indigenous expert knowledge, culling for conservation and walled gardens, with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Olivia Laing and @hedgehoghugh. Coming up on @BBCRadio4 at 9.

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

‘We need other logics for our approach to nature’: the woman uprooting colonialism in botany | Plants | The Guardian ⁦@PlantHums_UK⁩ https://t.co/kNIjfgAXe0

[Julie Sanders @ProfJSanders]

Superb Cosgrove lecture this evening by Prof Judith Carney from UCLA @KewScience @BritishAcademy_ @RoyalHolloway Centre for Geohumanities - about food, autonomy & freedom, using superb archival history & the concept of Bio-refugia to talk about participatory & just food futures.

[Julian Loose @loosestish]

Dominic Sandbrook savours SPICE: ‘A story of tremendous verve and scope… Roger Crowley’s rollicking, blood-soaked account of the race for the Spice Islands of east Asia is the book for you.’ https://t.co/3fBO6uxqrL @YaleBooks @crowley_roger

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

‘Some day I’m going to paint a portrait, a heroic portrait of these little weeds because they have the resilience that I wish I had, and actually that we need’. Mona Caron, BBC World Service, The Conversation https://t.co/eZo3lUqlg3

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born artist, known for her large scale murals connecting to environmental concerns and activism #WomensArt

[The Juggernaut @thejuggernaut]

@sukhadatatke Featuring interviews with @KateTeltscher and Michael Fisher

[The Juggernaut @thejuggernaut]

🛁 Sake Dean Mahomed, the first #Indian in the #UK to publish an #English book and open an Indian restaurant, changed hygiene forever. This is his story.

@sukhadatatke reports

https://t.co/tdKBmwYPyJ

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

Dazzling display of the architectural qualities of palms:
'Singularity' from @_MarcQuinn Light into Life show @kewgardens.
Precisely modelled on a Bismarckia nobilis leaf from Kew's Palm House (and placed just outside).
@BillJBaker @Scott_Zona @IPS_PalmSociety

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

What a difference a letter makes!
From Robert Hannigan’s forthcoming “Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us about Problem-Solving and Creativity”

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

Tremendous resource!

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

Excellent lecture by Yota Batsaki @RoyalHolloway yesterday.
Great overview of emerging field of Plant Humanities. Ended with brilliant analysis of Kapwani Kiwanga's glass-encased fern sculpture, 'On Growth', currently on display @highlinenyc.
@Economicbotany @LiveseyRuth

[Plant Humanities UK @PlantHums_UK]

CULTIVATING THE PLANT HUMANITIES:
FREE lecture by Yota Batsaki, Exec Director @DumbartonOaks @RoyalHolloway 9 May 2024 17:30 BST More: https://t.co/zrbQSC61dJ #PlantHumanities @KewScience @Kew_LAA @RHGeoHumanities @ahrcpress

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

British Formula 1 driver @LewisHamilton's Met Gala @Burberry look was inspired by the story of John Ystumllyn, one of Britain’s first black gardeners, and the symbolic language of flowers in black history. John Ystumllyn was an 18th-century gardener and is considered the first well-recorded black person of North Wales. Most likely brought to the Ystumllyn estate as an enslaved boy, he was well-respected in his local community, eventually marrying a local woman named Margaret Gruffydd.

Hamilton's outfit was hand-embroidered over two weeks by a team of 20, before the finishing touches were painted by hand in New York. Inspired by Ystumllyn's green thumb, the coat is embroidered with periwinkles for endurance, yucca for eternity and protection, daffodils for their hardiness, and cedar branches for everlasting life. The thorns around his neck symbolize the perils of slavery.

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

@JohnD_WMFB @WorldMonuments @kewgardens @georgeisediting @Kew_LAA Thank you, John. Yes, it looks spectacular! And looking forward to meeting you too!

[Kate Teltscher @KateTeltscher]

Excited to be invited to @WorldMonuments Palace of Palms event @kewgardens this week.
It's a brilliant cause – the Net Zero Carbon restoration of Kew's Palm House – and just happens to be named after my book!
@georgeisediting @JohnD_WMFB @Kew_LAA