Christina Harrison (Hourigan)

Techne PhD historical geography student at Royal Holloway & RBG Kew researching the cultural history of arboreta. Author & former editor of Kew magazine

[Christina Harrison (Hourigan) @KewEditor]

HOT OFF THE PRESS! 🥳 My new book with Carolyn Fry called Among the Giants! We followed #KewGardens amazing #Arboretum team over the course of a year to reveal how they care for their 11,000 trees. We also delve into Kew's fascinating #history. Out in mid August, preorder now!!!

[Christina Harrison (Hourigan) @KewEditor]

Captured out in the wild! My new #book 'Among the Giants, a year in Kews Arboretum' written with @Carofry for @Octopus_Books #GaiaPublishing and #KewGardens #KewPublishing.
This week @Waterstones is offering 25% off with code Summer25 #WPreorder so get shopping!

[Plant Humanities UK @PlantHums_UK]

Coming this autumn!! #PLANT #PERSPECTIVES 2(2) special issue: '#Tree #Cultures & the #Arboreal #Humanities' eds @CarolineCornis1 & @KewEditor #research articles, narrative #non_fiction #poetry & reviews https://t.co/SbqZxPQ4Ug @whitehorsepress @RHULGeography #interdisciplinary

[Christina Harrison (Hourigan) @KewEditor]

You can find me at the other place @ https://t.co/mKZzys0F3W 🌳🌲🌴

[Christina Harrison (Hourigan) @KewEditor]

Great first day at @TECHNEDTP Congress in beautiful venue of UAL College of Fashion. Inspiring talks and workshops on making and living, places of creativity and learning, emotional #archival encounters and even on #plants such as indigo, hemp and nettle. Great lunch too! 😋🤓💚

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Festive music from Channel 4 News' Ciaran Jenkins and BBC's Steve Rosenberg

[Forestry England @ForestryEngland]

Today is #WinterSolstice, the shortest day of the year marking the return of light and the promise of renewed life ❄️

Are you ready for the days to start getting brighter? 🌅

📷 Claire Sheppard

[Christina Harrison (Hourigan) @KewEditor]

@PlantHums_UK Very well deserved 👏 Many congratulations to Felix.

[Plant Humanities UK @PlantHums_UK]

Congratulations to Professor Felix Driver - the impetus at the heart of Plant Humanities UK! Amazing achievement, totally deserved!

[Alison Newbold @alison_newbold]

Tickets are now available for PGR/ECR L19C Seminar Series 2024-25: November - Reimagining Collections in the Long 19th Century, Online this Thursday 21st November 2024 at 5:30PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your free tickets now! https://t.co/ITv16ENNae

[HGRG RGS @HGRG_RGS]

🎉📷New section at the HGRG Newsletter, 'Archive in focus". If you are working in the archives, please send us an image and a brief text about curious and beautiful things you've found. Please send it to the HGRG Newsletter Editor @KewEditor

[Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @RGS_IBG]

Curated by Dr Rohini Rai (@rairohini06) (@Bruneluni) in collaboration with the Society, 'Reimagining the Himalaya through the lens of diasporic indigeneity' is now available to view online.

⬇️ https://t.co/ZpMtde3OMi

[Christina Harrison (Hourigan) @KewEditor]

@HouseHistorian @ChatsworthHouse Have also had the privilege of working in the archives room there. Thoroughly enjoyable to work with such lovely collections and people.

[Plant Humanities UK @PlantHums_UK]

#WOMEN & #BIODIVERSITY: #GENDER & THE MAKING OF THE #KEW #FUNGARIUM 1900-1950. Fantastic funded PhD opportunity from @AnthropoceneBio @UniofYork & @kewgardens supervised by @archivemole & Dr Nathan Smith. Details: https://t.co/5fGsKCRpNd @KewScience @KewMycology @RHGeoHumanities

[HGRG RGS @HGRG_RGS]

Excellent contribution to the histories of geographical exploration and the archives by HGRG Chair, Patrícia Silveira @PatriciaS_geo

[Christina Harrison (Hourigan) @KewEditor]

@DrPennyBradshaw 😁

[Christina Harrison (Hourigan) @KewEditor]

@DrPennyBradshaw Sounds utterly wonderful and immersive. Not jealous at all, not one bit.

[HGRG RGS @HGRG_RGS]

🚨Extended deadline: due to an issue with HGRG's website, we’ve pushed back the deadline for the HGRG-ICHG bursary to Friday 11th October.

If you’d like to receive the application forms, please get in touch.

[Elon Musk profits from political instability 🇺🇦 @GrrlScientist]

Extinct Biblical Tree Resurrected From Ancient 1,000 Year Old Seed Found In Cave, study published by Communications Biology @CommsBio

by @GrrlScientist

#Extinct #trees #archaeology #botany #Levant #Bible #SciComms https://t.co/RcE7NBkCX4