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Is Lauterjung
@islauter.bsky.social
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Archivist. Interested in history of smell, natural history, and medicine + multisensory approaches to heritage and engagement.

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Did you know Kew’s Library and Archives hold 7,000+ Indian illustrations? This vibrant Pajanelia longifolia piece by Vishnupersad - commissioned by Nathaniel Wallich - is now on show. Explore Flora Indica at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery through April 2026. #KewLA
Illustration of Pajanelia longifolia (named as Bignonia multijuga) showing the flowers and leaves of the plant which has been cut off at the stem. Several branches of green leaves fan out from the stem above which are shown pale yellow flowers each with a delicate purple centre. The faint undersketch of a leaf can be seen in the upper right while three partially coloured fllower dissections can be seen on the right. Underneath the illustration to the left is written 'Wallich 1828 East Ind. Co.' which makes reference to Wallich's employer - The East India Company. Two different plant determinations are also written under the image identifying it as Pajanelia rheedii or Bignonia multijuga
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Autumn is in full swing, and so is mushroom season! This lovely engraving is from the 1675 book "Theatrum Fungorum" by Belgian priest and mycologist Franciscus van Sterbeeck. The facial expressions of the children above the doorway symbolise edible (left) versus poisonous (right) mushrooms. #KewLA
Black and white illustration of a market scene with mushroom sellers. At the back is a stone archway with van Sterbeeck's portrait above it. Surrounding him are children holding garlands of mushrooms, with smiling faces on the left, and sad expressions on the right. Title page of the book by Franciscus van Sterbeeck. The titles reads: Theatrum Fungorum oft het Tooneel der Campernoelien. It has a further description about the contents of the work in Dutch. It was published in 1675 in Antwerp by Joseph Iacobs and has a small engraving of a bundle of mushrooms at the bottom. The page has a library stamp at the top left and slight yellowing.
November 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Today on #ArmisticeDay, we're remembering the Kew staff who served during both World Wars and balanced their lives in science and horticulture with duty and sacrifice 🧵👇

#KewLA
Herbarium illustration of a paper showing colour code bar at the top of the image.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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🎨 What are the colours of care? Join us online for a fascinating talk exploring the history of colour in 20th century hospitals in Britain. Free and open to all!

🎟️Book your place: https://bit.ly/4qfnEc6

Image: Mary Barnes: At the Well, oil on board, c/o Falkland Estate.
Promotional image for 'Sensing Spaces: The History of Colour, Art and Care' held online by the Royal College of Nursing on 19 November 2025, 5.30pm - 7pm. It features an abstract painting of two faces by the artist Mary Barnes.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
islauter.bsky.social
Always a great day to promote our collections and engage with researchers and other organisations 🤓 #HistDay25
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rbgkew.bsky.social Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 21d
Today, our Graduate Trainees have been representing Kew Library & Archives for #HistDay25 at Senate House Library. It's been a great way to share highlights from our collections with potential students and researchers as well as discover more about other libraries and archives! #KewLA
A selection of copied Library, Illustrations and Archives material dipslayed across a table with a black tablecloth. There are two upright perspex holders with advertisements for the current exhibitions at Kew "Flora Indica" and "Persia Reimagined". Botanical illustrations on the table are of a carnivorous plant, painted by Marianne North, and fly agaric mushrooms, drawn by Elsie Wakefield. Other items on the table are copies of a handwritten letter, a copy of Curtis' Botanical Magazine, a Rocque map of Kew Gardens, a colour chart by Burchell, as well as stacks of postcards and badges for visitors to take.
November 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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arainternational.bsky.social
Fantastic case study on the application of #recordsincontext and how it can help indigenous and minority communities create more cohesive and visible histories!

ica-egad.github.io/RiC-AG/case_...
Case study — How might RiC be of use to indigenous communities and other minority groups?
ica-egad.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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arainternational.bsky.social
The Britain Zimbabwe Society is hosting Guardians of Knowledge – Libraries and Information in Zimbabwe. This event will feature a stunning panel discussing their experiences of setting up and running libraries for their local communities.

📍Online
📅 Nov 15; 12-3pm GMT

Learn more: bit.ly/47Br4gY
Guardians of Knowledge – Libraries and Information in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean speakers share experiences of setting up, running and using libraries in their local communities. Free, donations invited.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
islauter.bsky.social
🌷 If you'd like to find out more about the exhibition @shabnambalouch.bsky.social and I co-curated, do have a read of our blog post! We go into a bit more detail on the research and collections involved. 🌷
rbgkew.bsky.social Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Oct 16
Hello Bishopsgate Institute! Here's what our team said: "We're always keen to share our collections with wider audiences. Our current exhibition, for example, explores the social and cultural histories tucked away in our Persian collections. Read more about them here: www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
Going beyond the botanical in Kew’s Persian collections
Learn about the social and cultural histories tucked away in our Persian collections, as displayed in our new exhibition in the Library & Archives Reading Room.
www.kew.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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arainternational.bsky.social
There are two archival traineeships available at the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social including one for AV archives. If you know a student or recent graduate that might be interested this is a great international opportunity! www.eui.eu/about/jobopp...
Traineeships
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October 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Ever wondered what stories lie behind Kew’s collections? 🌍
Today’s the day to find out – it’s #AskAnArchivist Day! Our archivists are here to answer your questions about rare books, explorers’ journals and the care of centuries-old plant records.

Ask below 👇
#AskAnArchivist #KewArchives
October 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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arainternational.bsky.social
Still time to register for this event! Go go go!
araireland.bsky.social araireland @araireland.bsky.social · Oct 8
An online lecture series promoting the principles of diversity & inclusion across archival collections and the wider record-keeping community will kick off on Oct 22nd at 1pm.

1st talk will be about Preserving Records in support of Truth Recovery in Northern Ireland

@araukie.bsky.social

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October 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Excellent article. Shameful that it's 'either football or opera'. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...
The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book
observer.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
🌳Exciting news! Our own Caroline Cornish & Christina Hourigan guest edited a special issue of Plant Perspectives on Tree Cultures & Arboreal Humanities.

From Kew tree biographies to literary & cultural stories, discover how trees can inspire both research and imagination👇

@treeseeker.bsky.social
whitehorsepress.bsky.social The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Oct 3
‘Plant Perspectives’ 2.2 is now available online – entirely #openaccess thanks to our #subscribetoopen supporters and our generous individual donors. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Botanist or poet? For National Poetry Day, we discovered poetry hidden amongst the personal papers of botanists - from J. Fraser’s 1919 poem on poppies to H.M Ward’s critique’s on his mother’s poetry!
#KewLA
Close up of letter from H.M. Ward to his mother, reading: ‘July 20: I have just got the second batch of your poems. I strongly advise you to be careful, the ideas are…& poetical to a degree; but you…too apt to lose the on the metre on you…in technical construction. Handwritten poem by J Fraser, titled ‘The Corn Poppy’ with a sentence crossed out then four stanzas reading: “The scarlet poppy reddens daily, Amongst the cornfields blossoms gaily, Makes comely neighbours wanton palely, and dazzles all beneath the skies, But beckons me with swanting [sic] eyes. Uh! Could I like the gliding swallow, Explore the vale and upland follows, No more in smoky dens I’d swallow, No longer breathe the air that falls Midst crowded streets and staring walls. Then would I bid adieu to collow, And scour the…height and hollow, Un…the downs and blithely follow, along the fields where bright corn rose – The glorious flaming poppy – glows. To-day would have no room for sorrow, No boding thoughts to gloom to-morrow, And each day after fair would borrow Another glide along the plain, to search amongst the bended grain’” Loose papers, with handwritten poem on top of five stanzas, the second of which is crossed out then rewritten underneath. It reads: “The transport bent by wholesome breezes, Where charming guise of landscape pleases, Brings life amend, as man can…., and genders thanks for flow’r so fair, That smile and make my errand there. I love to see the wild bee settle, Upon the smooth and silky petal, And laugh to view its ardent mettle, When tumbling round the…flow’r, Collecting bee bread hour by hour. The longest day draws with gloaming, And puts an end to handsome roaming; I grieve to mark its shadows coming, But more to think when day is blind, that I must leave my flow’r behind. The corn, the poppy, bee and ether, And birds that wing on airy feather, all choose the wilds and hang together, Beneath the great and blue sky-dome, And I must visit them at home” Signed at end: J.F., March 15th 1919
October 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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🌷New exhibition open - this was such a great experience to co-curate with @shabnambalouch.bsky.social and learn more about Persia. We have chosen to highlight the non-botanical, the cultural and social histories often tucked away in botanists' papers. 🌷

www.kew.org/kew-gardens/...
rbgkew.bsky.social Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Sep 30
We have an exciting new exhibition in our Library & Archives Reading Room: 'Persia Reimagined: From Herbarium to Heritage' takes a closer look at the social and cultural histories tucked away inside our Persian collections.
Free admission, no booking required. #KewLA
Image: An advertisement for an exhibition at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, titled "Persia Reimagined: From Herbarium to Heritage". The background is a collage of Archive and Illustrations materials, drawn, handwritten and typescript, with an illustration of a yellow Rosa persica interwoven with the logo of Kew Gardens. The dates for the exhibition are listed: 30 September to 21 January 2026. 🐡
October 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Another week, another beautiful item spotted in our Reading Room at Kew! These incredible drawings of 'submersed algae' are from Sir William Hooker's collection (safely stored within our Archives). Check out the incredible detail in each line 👇
#KewLA
A close-up of a coloured illustration of a brown algae. There is a central 'stem' with equally thick sections branching off from it. A coloured illustration of an algae that resembles a bushel of grass. The stems are tightly packed towards the bottom of the illustration and branch outwards towards the top, much like wheat or grass. Two partial coloured illustrations on overlaying pages. The page on the top shows an illustration at the bototm of the picture, which could be a close-up or a cross-section of an algae. Small green squares are grouped, resembling illustrations of cells, and small black circular specs are grouped together across the surface. The illustration on the page below is only partial and also shows a cross section of a beige-brown algae.
September 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Call for applications: Endangered Archives Programme
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For Applicants
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September 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
As the Last Night of the Proms approaches, we'd like to introduce you to the Trumpet Tree (Cecropia peltata L.) 🎺
Native to tropical South America, its hollow branches have been used to craft musical instruments. This original painting by Marianne North captures a sloth feeding on said tree! #KewLA
An oil on paper painting of a landscape depicting Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, with trees and shrubs in the foreground. A sloth is seen feeding on a Trumpet Tree on the left.
September 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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arainternational.bsky.social
Reflecting on our first ARA conference session, our speakers wanted to share a few words:

"Thank you very much to ARA for the opportunity to speak and to introduce the International Group to the wider sector. It was great to see so many people in the room and on a Friday afternoon at that!"
September 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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A small good thing, also beautiful.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
“It’s a secret garden”: National Theatre turns roof into a riot of colour with dye plants
Textile artists are reshaping how the theatre makes its costumes with the aim of replacing harsh synthetic dyes
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
islauter.bsky.social
🚨Come and join our team! A great opportunity to open up colonial collections and do community engagement and outreach work!

Full-time fixed term (12 months)
Salary: £32.9k - £34.5k
Closing date: 21/09/2025
rbgkew.bsky.social Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Sep 4
🚨With the Archives Revealed funding, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team as Assistant Archivist on the project. This will be a great opportunity to make our archive more accessible to new audiences. #KewLA

Closing: 21 Sept

Find out more here: careers.kew.org/vacancy/assi...
four bays in a shelving unit holding numerous bound volumes and archival boxes.
September 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Try to imagine life in 2641. This is why archives, museums and libraries are AMAZING.

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A shelf of large and very old leather books
August 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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If you've made it this far through #ARA2025 do join us after lunch for an introduction to our International Group, what we do and hope to do, and what's coming up next for us! 🌍
arainternational.bsky.social ARA International @arainternational.bsky.social · Aug 29
Going live soon!

Join us for Forming International Connections at #ARA2025 Session D9 at 2:05 PM BST. Let’s talk about building a stronger global archives community. 🌍

#InternationalArchives #ARAConference
August 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Our team recently came across these beautiful drawings of wild flowers in Libya. They were made by Jocelyn Russell in 1940s. Her Mechanised Transport Corps was stationed in North Africa during WWII and it was during this time that she made illustrations of the plants she saw. #KewLA #Wildflowers
Media (75): A cropped section from a page of a notebook, with handwriting in lines to the left of a coloured sketch. The cropped writing reads: "Sinapsis arvensis. Charlock specimen. ..., spreading plant … with numerous form-petalled … clear yellow flowers. 6 stamens… arranged 4 long, 2 short, leaves variable, .... stem leaves at the base of ... each branch deeply ... toothed, radical leaves...much cut. Stem covered ... with stiff hairs. In damp places grows to 2 feet in height. Brassica specimen ... 🐡 Media (76): A cropped section from a page of a notebook, with a coloured illustration in the bottom left corner of a written page. The cropped text reads: "in lenth ... is water. Flowers ... closely packed clusters ... 12 together, on short pedicels. Leaves with ... stalks, and three broad, toothed leaflets. Seedpods medium, much wrinkled. Very common on gravelly desert, forming brilliant yellow patches, as it flowers most prolifically, January to March. Vetch specimen. Handsome plant growing in most places. Flowers yellowish white, medium size, with standard ... delicate deck vein... leaves with 7-9 ... of leaflets, ending... forked tendril... small, dark ... Seedpod.
August 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
islauter.bsky.social
First morning done at #ARA2025 and lots to reflect on in terms of what inclusion means, how we can challenge existing systems and practices, and how best to develop skills in the workplace 🥸
A PowerPoint slide from the Archives & Records Association. A banner across an orange tinted picture of the Clifton Suspension Bridge reads "Welcome to Archives & Records Association Conference, Bristol 2025". On either side of the slides are logos of the conference sponsors: ARA, ancestry, bruynzeel, and Historic Records.
August 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM