Mark Nesbitt

CFP: East Asia and Economic Botany, 1800-1950 9-10 June 2025 Location: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew We welcome papers that consider ‘economic botany’ in its many forms and from various disciplinary perspectives. Please contact Weipin Tsai and Caroline Cornish by 30 December 2024

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 events.bl.uk/events/gardens…

Amazing job at the @Pitt_Rivers: Research Fellow in Biocultural Heritage researching @UniofOxford collections using heritage science. So many possibilities... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

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: kew.org/science/traini… 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) careers.kew.org/vacancy/underg…

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 royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/…

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 careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-re… 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: herbalhistory.org/home/seminars/

On March 25, I present🌿 Plants without Life🌳 at @Concordia University (Montreal) #histphilo #histsci #17century #plantstudies #mechanicallife discussing life, plants and nature Info here ⤵️ concordia.ca/cuevents/artsc…

🚨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: …for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8512 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: …memberingmarkwhittow.history.ox.ac.uk

Job opportunities! We are currently recruiting for the following roles: * Collections & Digitisation Assistant * Herbarium Collections Manager * Research Assistant / Research Associate * Research Laboratory Technician Find out more and apply: tinyurl.com/3smk68t5

#HistMed 'Mr Nicholas Culpeper - a ‘lay’ herbalist who fuelled a revolution in early modern medicine' - a lecture by Prof Michael Farthing - join us on 28.4.25 in-person. Follow the link: ow.ly/gjTJ50UpSCY

Did you miss our recent online talk by @Kim_Wyrt on John Howard and quinology? Catch up on the recording now: youtu.be/vpHCelgCpFc?si…

Sorry to hear of the passing of Andrea Tanner, archivist @Fortnums who have been donors of tea & groceries to @kewgardens Economic Botany Collection since 1855; Andrea continued this. @Fortnums archive was destroyed in WW2 so our collections precious aim25.com/dr-andrea-tann…

!!BREAKING NEWS!! Your dream PhD is advertised. 'Origin and evolutionary dynamics of rainforest assembly in the Fiji Islands' And yes, you will HAVE to do fieldwork in that place in the picture... Botanists this a one off! Please RT! findaphd.com/phds/project/o…

This week I deposited my PhD thesis at the Bodleian Libraries (Oxford Research Archive). Many thanks to my supervisor, Dan Hicks and examiners, Alex Geurds and Jen Baird. Tremendously grateful for the opportunity and for all who offered insight, kindness, and support.

Welcome to the team, Francesca!

Our new paper is out now! 🔥 @AleVa1911 Altitude of C4 crop cultivation has a significant effect on carbon isotopes in grains 🗻important fact for archaeological and paleo studies! ⛏️#Archaeobotany #Isotopes #PaleoResearch frontiersin.org/journals/envir…

On 15 Nov do join @Kew_LAA @AuroraPrehn @LondonArchives to explore plants and trade in the Victorian Port of London. Lots of documents and objects to see and discuss. Book ahead: thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/plant…