The Society's historical membership archive is now searchable in our online catalogue - check out our latest blogpost to find out more about the collection! royalasiaticsociety.org/the-ras-member…
#BotanicGardensWeek is coming up from 19th – 26th May 🌸🌳
Gardens across Aus & NZ will be showcasing their 'Big Five' plants & we're going to highlight our Five Favourite Eucalypt Collections!
Head to @BGANZ1 to find out what's on at a garden near you! bganz.org.au/resource-categ…
We have recently added 18 manuscripts from our Malay and Javanese collections to our Digital Library for free online viewing. Read our latest blogpost to find out more and we hope you enjoy exploring these manuscript treasures!
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We are excited to support "Coffee and Caffeine Cultures," a symposium about the cultural life of caffeine at @NYBG. This conference will be held on Thursday, May 1 from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Mertz Library @NYBG. To register:
nybg.org/event/coffee-a…
A few of the 53 "potted landscapes" made for each of the stations of the Tōkaidō road, the most important route in Edo-period Japan. After they were made the artist had a relatively obscure ukiyo-e artist named Utagawa Yoshishige to illustrate them: publicdomainreview.org/collection/53-…
The Cambridge launch for my new book, Reading the World, is at the Whipple Museum, 5-7pm on Wednesday 21st May. Please do sign up if you would like to come along!
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Free webinar from @NYBG & @DumbartonOaks: 2025 Plant Humanities Conversations: Poisons & Remedies, Apr 16, 2025. 12-1:30pm ET. "...engage with plants as poisons and remedies as they show in medicinal practices, botanical collections, and literary works." nybg.org/event/2025-pla…
Free webinar & in-person event from @HarvardDivinity: Thinking With Plants and Fungi: Treadwell’s Book of Plant Magic: A Conversation with Historian Christina Oakley Harrington. Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 5:30– 7pm ET. cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news-events/ca…
New book: Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art by Giovanni Aloi "This groundbreaking volume unearths the representation of plants and their vital impact on art...advocating for the botanical world’s legitimate place in art history." shop.getty.edu/products/botan…
Bringing botanical illustrations and pressed plants to your feed 🌿
We recently hosted colleagues working across Cambridge collections with Collections-Connections-Communities to celebrate the launch of their Natural History Humanities research programme: loom.ly/C8reZbo
Knowing the Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue with @Lever_Press is now in proofs. The big work is already done. Now we just need to make sure the is are dotted, the ts crossed, and tails have been pinned to the now-extinct Iberian cebros running across…
This beautiful book was hand-painted by Sophia MacKenzie in the late 18th-century. She is thought to have taken the book to Kew and worked from life! 🌿
Find out more about this remarkable object and its creator at this free talk on 4 March: bit.ly/41fIdtj
Did you know, that just by casting your vote for Eucalypt of the Year, you could win one of twenty eucalypt prize packs?
Each pack contains two awesome books about eucalypts, a beautiful tea towel and a sticker!
Vote here for your chance to win: eucalyptaustralia.org.au/eucalypt-of-th…
Anna Marie Roos has reviewed Natural Things in Isis @hssonline. She spotlights Helen Ellis's beautiful essay "Pollen: The Sexual Life of Plants in Mesoamerica" and the vivid designs by @naturalpixels@Zoe_Sadokierski Our deepest thanks to everyone who contributed to this book.…
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