Mark Nesbitt
@marknesbitt.bsky.social
ethnobotanist and curator at Kew Gardens. Dipping my toe in...
Spectacular day at the incredible Kirstenbosh Botanical Garden in Cape Town
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Spectacular day at the incredible Kirstenbosh Botanical Garden in Cape Town
Amazing job at the @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social : Research Fellow in Biocultural Heritage researching @ox.ac.uk collections using heritage science. So many possibilities... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
April 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Amazing job at the @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social : Research Fellow in Biocultural Heritage researching @ox.ac.uk collections using heritage science. So many possibilities... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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/unde...
April 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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/unde...
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
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
March 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
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: rememberingmarkwhittow.history.ox.ac.uk
December 24, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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: rememberingmarkwhittow.history.ox.ac.uk
And the Norton Simon Museum
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
And the Norton Simon Museum
A brief side excursion to the Arts & Crafts Gamble House
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
A brief side excursion to the Arts & Crafts Gamble House
Extensive succulent and palm gardens
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Extensive succulent and palm gardens
The vast Chinese garden, with ethnobotanical displays
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
The vast Chinese garden, with ethnobotanical displays
The newly installed but 300-year old Shoya House illustrating traditional agriculture in Japan
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
The newly installed but 300-year old Shoya House illustrating traditional agriculture in Japan
The historic and beautiful Japanese garden. I lingered here a long time.
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
The historic and beautiful Japanese garden. I lingered here a long time.
I had a few days to explore the extraordinary holdings of the library and galleries
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
I had a few days to explore the extraordinary holdings of the library and galleries
Many thanks to the incredible Huntington Library & Gardens in Pasadena for the invitation to speak at the Storm Cloud conference celebrating this great exhibition on climate change & art in the 19th century: huntington.org/event/storm-...
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Many thanks to the incredible Huntington Library & Gardens in Pasadena for the invitation to speak at the Storm Cloud conference celebrating this great exhibition on climate change & art in the 19th century: huntington.org/event/storm-...
Wednesday, November 27 - 2024 10:00to 11:30 EST online
Caroline Cornish (Kew): Hidden hands and the development of economic botany: the role of captive or coerced labour in the Economic Botany Collection. Book well ahead via:
www.chstm.org/content/hidd...
[& more talks in the same series]
Caroline Cornish (Kew): Hidden hands and the development of economic botany: the role of captive or coerced labour in the Economic Botany Collection. Book well ahead via:
www.chstm.org/content/hidd...
[& more talks in the same series]
November 15, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Wednesday, November 27 - 2024 10:00to 11:30 EST online
Caroline Cornish (Kew): Hidden hands and the development of economic botany: the role of captive or coerced labour in the Economic Botany Collection. Book well ahead via:
www.chstm.org/content/hidd...
[& more talks in the same series]
Caroline Cornish (Kew): Hidden hands and the development of economic botany: the role of captive or coerced labour in the Economic Botany Collection. Book well ahead via:
www.chstm.org/content/hidd...
[& more talks in the same series]
Monday 25th November - 18.30 – 20.00, online only
British Society for the History of Pharmacy
The making of a quinologist: cinchona and quinine science in the work of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) by Kim Walker (Kew)
Book via email to [email protected]
British Society for the History of Pharmacy
The making of a quinologist: cinchona and quinine science in the work of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) by Kim Walker (Kew)
Book via email to [email protected]
November 15, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Monday 25th November - 18.30 – 20.00, online only
British Society for the History of Pharmacy
The making of a quinologist: cinchona and quinine science in the work of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) by Kim Walker (Kew)
Book via email to [email protected]
British Society for the History of Pharmacy
The making of a quinologist: cinchona and quinine science in the work of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) by Kim Walker (Kew)
Book via email to [email protected]
Lots going on in the world of #planthumanities this autumn... here are some events in London or online that have crossed my inbox:
21 November 2024 – 19.00. In person, South London Botanical Institute. Dye plants: Vivi Mellegård (Kew) & Zoë Burt (artist). Book ahead:
www.slbi.org.uk/events/
21 November 2024 – 19.00. In person, South London Botanical Institute. Dye plants: Vivi Mellegård (Kew) & Zoë Burt (artist). Book ahead:
www.slbi.org.uk/events/
November 15, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Lots going on in the world of #planthumanities this autumn... here are some events in London or online that have crossed my inbox:
21 November 2024 – 19.00. In person, South London Botanical Institute. Dye plants: Vivi Mellegård (Kew) & Zoë Burt (artist). Book ahead:
www.slbi.org.uk/events/
21 November 2024 – 19.00. In person, South London Botanical Institute. Dye plants: Vivi Mellegård (Kew) & Zoë Burt (artist). Book ahead:
www.slbi.org.uk/events/