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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 2d

Exploring belonging and connection, through making with @jacquir711.bsky.social at the fabulous #CreativeConnections symposium

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 2d

This was a great afternoon, welcoming 60 super engaged students from @unisouthampton.bsky.social to our collections!

Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 4d

Last week our Library & Archives team welcomed 60 students from Graphic Comms at the University of Southampton to explore themes around plant histories, challenging perspectives through engagement with the archive. We look forward to seeing their interpretations of the display we prepared! #KewLA

A spacious library room with tables displaying open historical books, manuscripts, and documents under bright linear ceiling lights.

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 23d

A fabulous visit to @middletemple.bsky.social archives yesterday, for our Places, Plants and People Archive Network. A real treat to see the hall, gardens and archives!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Aug 19

Birthday trip to beautiful @kneppwilding.bsky.social!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Aug 13

A fabulous drink on Isola Bella!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Jul 30

I do love this photo! Happy friendship day!

Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Jul 30

Many friendships have been made at Kew Gardens! To celebrate #InternationalFriendshipDay here is an image of our female gardeners during WWII, sharing a hot drink together in their break from gardening duties! #KewLA

A black and white photograph of six women in traditional 1940s gardening clothing, sitting in a glasshouse, drinking from mugs.

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Jun 29

Now that’s how you do #Glastonbury #TheProdigy

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Jun 28

Very much enjoying @rbgkew.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social Gardens and Empire conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Jun 12

Particularly enjoyed hearing about Layers of London with @justincolson.bsky.social, where GIS has been used to amplify diverse voices and put them on the map!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Jun 12

A super interesting workshop @rgsibg.bsky.social today, exploring GIS and archives. And a tour of the collection, which was a real treat! Just need to magic up some time to see what we can do with our archives and GIS ✨

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Jun 9

Happy International Archives Day!

Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Jun 9

Happy #InternationalArchivesDay! Why not delve deeper into bits of our collections today? 📜

Browse our catalogued items: www2.calmview.co.uk/kew/calmview/
Try reading Sir Joseph Hooker's handwriting: jdhooker.kew.org/p/jdh
Find out more about Wardian cases: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtiM...

#KewLA

Two shelves of black bound volumes; some have cotton string with brown tags attached to them to denote their specific volume number or record ID.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · May 8

On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we look back in our Library & Archives collections at the work of Kew during the Second World War. This press release from 1943, shows how the Garden’s spaces changed their use, including the introduction of demonstration plots. #KewLA #VE80

Black and white photograph showing people viewing a vegetable plot. Caption below image reading ‘Demonstration plot, 1940-45 at Kew’. ©RBG Kew

A close-up of a black and white type script press release. Kew Archives – 1/Adm/41

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · May 7

FREE behind the scenes tours! Come and find out more about our records relating to trees, through an exciting collaboration with @urbantreefest.bsky.social 🌲 🌳🪾

Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · May 1

Our Library & Archive teams are hosting a show-and-tell session on 12 May as part of @urbantreefest.bsky.social! 🌳
Come along to see great materials all to do with Kew's trees. It's first come first serve, so make sure to book soon! ⏰ #KewLA

Find out more 👇
urbantreefestival.org/trees-in-kew...

Trees in Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives — Urban Tree Festival

Kew Gardens’ Archives and Illustrations teams will host show and tell sessions relating to themes of colonialism and deforestation, historic uses of trees, and the role of trees in cities.

urbantreefestival.org

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Apr 23

Some super exciting news for our #archives, brought about by a collaboration led by @theul.bsky.social (am trying not to cringe at the reel)

Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · Apr 23

Huge news today that the Darwin papers in our #KewLA #Archive collection are being added to the @unesco.org Memory of the World Register! 🗃️

Take a look at the writings of a young Charles Darwin with our Senior Archivist & Records Manager, Kiri 👇

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Apr 14

Exploring Northumberland and some rather excellent cup and ring marks. Anyone know what these signified? I’ve guessed ritual, the kids think they were part of children’s games and A thinks waymarks 🤔

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Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social · Apr 6

Delighted to see the new exhibition as part of the project 'Natural History in the Age of Revolutions' in the Library and Archives at @rbgkew.bsky.social ! Thank you to all those who made this happen, especially my Co-I Staffan Müller-Wille and Fiona Ainsworth. Free and open 1 April-19th June

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Apr 8

This looks fabulous 👀

Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · Apr 8

🔬 Applications are open for the UL and @universityofleeds.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship:
The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/hXILBEo
@camglamresearch.bsky.social

Cambridge University Library and University of Leeds - Collections Connections Communities

loom.ly

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Apr 8

This looks great! How long is the exhibition on for please? I’d love to pop up and see it!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Apr 2

The Palm House looking fabulous in yesterday’s sunshine!

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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · Mar 28

🥁 Drum rolls needed!
Applications for the Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellowships are now OPEN!

We are so excited to offer this incredible opportunity!
Please, help us share the news!
2 online sandpits to meet #GLAM people @uniofcam.bsky.social

Info 👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Researchers discussing Natural History Humanities materials at the Cambridge University Library

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Mar 18

Post-doctoral fellowships 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-...
Informal enquiries: [email protected]

Kew Research Fellow (Enhanced Partnerships) - Careers | Kew GardensMenuClose menu

We are seeking applications from promising early-career scientists with interesting, innovative, and viable research ideas for the Kew Research Fellowship in Plant and Fungal Science. The Kew Research...

careers.kew.org

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Mar 18

A PhD opportunity that will involve using the archives of where I now work, and where I used to work - a real archival treat 📚

Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Mar 18

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...

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Mar 5

Looks great 🤩 Well done!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Feb 11

A brilliant day @linneansociety.bsky.social for Rediscovering Natural History. There was even an interactive session- Using Smell to Open up Archives- with @willtullett.bsky.social and Cecilia Bembibre

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · Feb 9

Very excited to find the Water Newton silver in the BM. I grew up in Water Newton - if I’d seen The Detectorists back then, there’d have been no keeping me off those fields!

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