Brad Scott
@trichocolea.bsky.social
Working with the Sloane Herbarium @QMULsed
& @NHM_London • HPS @stsucl (1980s) • Routledge (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex
& @NHM_London • HPS @stsucl (1980s) • Routledge (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex
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Brad Scott
@trichocolea.bsky.social
· Feb 18
Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753)
Botanical collections assembled before the widespread adoption of the ‘Linnaean’ system of binomial naming often have nomenclatural significance, are increasingly utilized to investigate genetic an...
doi.org
Our data paper is out today: Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753).
Co-authored with Vicky Pickering, @rxcoulton.bsky.social, Julianne Nyhan and Mark Carine
doi.org/10.1080/1477...
Co-authored with Vicky Pickering, @rxcoulton.bsky.social, Julianne Nyhan and Mark Carine
doi.org/10.1080/1477...
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Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2
Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain’s colonial past on JSTOR
This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain's involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the te...
www.jstor.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2
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For World Aids Day, 1 December, I’ve co-curated a new highlights gallery exploring @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy state records collection related to the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s.
To access it:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
To access it:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
HIV and AIDS
We hold an extensive range of material related to the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the 1980 and 1990s.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
For World Aids Day, 1 December, I’ve co-curated a new highlights gallery exploring @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy state records collection related to the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s.
To access it:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
To access it:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
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This is the first known photograph of a snowman.
It was taken in Swansea, Wales, in 1853 by Victorian photography pioneer Mary Dillwyn.
📷 National Library of Wales - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
#christmas #snow
It was taken in Swansea, Wales, in 1853 by Victorian photography pioneer Mary Dillwyn.
📷 National Library of Wales - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
#christmas #snow
December 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This is the first known photograph of a snowman.
It was taken in Swansea, Wales, in 1853 by Victorian photography pioneer Mary Dillwyn.
📷 National Library of Wales - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
#christmas #snow
It was taken in Swansea, Wales, in 1853 by Victorian photography pioneer Mary Dillwyn.
📷 National Library of Wales - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
#christmas #snow
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We’ll be running our introduction to manuscript studies again in June 2026. There’s an early bird discount if you book this month, but if students are interested please encourage them to book early as this course has limited places 👇 📚📖✏️💻
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Introduction to Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
This course introduces students to key skills for the study of medieval manuscripts, from the making of parchment to reading text and imagery
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
We’ll be running our introduction to manuscript studies again in June 2026. There’s an early bird discount if you book this month, but if students are interested please encourage them to book early as this course has limited places 👇 📚📖✏️💻
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
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I love social media posts like this. Have created a #Wikidata item for Jane & linked her to her cousin & adding information about her social & family network www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137219... Unfortunately this herbarium doesn't appear to be in @gbif.org so no @bionomia.net specimen links #Bryology
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I love social media posts like this. Have created a #Wikidata item for Jane & linked her to her cousin & adding information about her social & family network www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137219... Unfortunately this herbarium doesn't appear to be in @gbif.org so no @bionomia.net specimen links #Bryology
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Forthcoming with the
CSMBR ONLINE LECTURE SERIES
To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../natural-...
#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Rumphius #NaturalHistory #OnlineLecture
CSMBR ONLINE LECTURE SERIES
To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../natural-...
#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Rumphius #NaturalHistory #OnlineLecture
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Forthcoming with the
CSMBR ONLINE LECTURE SERIES
To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../natural-...
#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Rumphius #NaturalHistory #OnlineLecture
CSMBR ONLINE LECTURE SERIES
To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../natural-...
#CSMBR #MedicalHistory #Rumphius #NaturalHistory #OnlineLecture
Moss specimens from the 1810s in the herbarium of William Henry Fox Talbot, the photography pioneer, at the British Library, including some supplied by his cousin Jane Talbot (1796–1874)
You can read about the family and their moss interests in BJHS: dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000... #bryology #bryophytes
You can read about the family and their moss interests in BJHS: dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000... #bryology #bryophytes
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Moss specimens from the 1810s in the herbarium of William Henry Fox Talbot, the photography pioneer, at the British Library, including some supplied by his cousin Jane Talbot (1796–1874)
You can read about the family and their moss interests in BJHS: dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000... #bryology #bryophytes
You can read about the family and their moss interests in BJHS: dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000... #bryology #bryophytes
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Discover the rare species found only in Britain with Endemic by James Harding-Morris.
Order from the Bloomsbury website by midnight on Sunday to get 30% off.
A must-read for nature lovers this Christmas!
Order from the Bloomsbury website by midnight on Sunday to get 30% off.
A must-read for nature lovers this Christmas!
December 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Discover the rare species found only in Britain with Endemic by James Harding-Morris.
Order from the Bloomsbury website by midnight on Sunday to get 30% off.
A must-read for nature lovers this Christmas!
Order from the Bloomsbury website by midnight on Sunday to get 30% off.
A must-read for nature lovers this Christmas!
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What’s missing from natural history collections? Maria Dragoi, @ucl.ac.uk Museum Studies alumna and current PhD candidate, discusses her research into our entomology collection and the importance of interpreting collections through a decolonial lens. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
What’s missing from natural history collections? Maria Dragoi, @ucl.ac.uk Museum Studies alumna and current PhD candidate, discusses her research into our entomology collection and the importance of interpreting collections through a decolonial lens. www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
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What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections?
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
New CFP from Paper Trails here:
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026
🗃️
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My @jskstanford.bsky.social year at Stanford centers on one question: What grows when you build a community newsroom inside a public library? I've been testing it in Brooklyn neighborhood. It's works.
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
I Have An Idea To Open 16,000 Newsrooms In The U.S.
What happens when journalism lives inside the public library?
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My @jskstanford.bsky.social year at Stanford centers on one question: What grows when you build a community newsroom inside a public library? I've been testing it in Brooklyn neighborhood. It's works.
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
We can do this in the 16,000+ library buildings in the U.S. Seriously.
medium.com/jsk-class-of...
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‘Mosses and wandering lichens’, as Ruskin puts it in ‘The Poetry of Architecture’ (1837), ‘though beautiful, constitute a kind of beauty from which the ideas of age and decay are inseparable’.
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
‘Mosses and wandering lichens’, as Ruskin puts it in ‘The Poetry of Architecture’ (1837), ‘though beautiful, constitute a kind of beauty from which the ideas of age and decay are inseparable’.
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen.
courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...
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Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Exciting new project with a great PhD opportunity just announced
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival of the NHS wp.me/p8Mk4U-198p
New project launched to uncover Wales’s forgotten herbal medicine traditions
A major new research project will delve into Wales’s long and often overlooked history of herbal medicine, shedding light on how people treated illness and maintained their health before the arrival o...
nation.cymru
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Exciting new project with a great PhD opportunity just announced
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How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts – an online short course taught by Anna Somfai
This course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the spa…
palaeography.uk
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
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Lovely unusual coloured version of Henry De la Beche's 1832 cartoon The Light of Science for sale at auction next month. Seeking government support for science, De la Beche draws a fashionable female figure with gas lamp, wristwatch & of course a geological hammer.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Lovely unusual coloured version of Henry De la Beche's 1832 cartoon The Light of Science for sale at auction next month. Seeking government support for science, De la Beche draws a fashionable female figure with gas lamp, wristwatch & of course a geological hammer.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
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NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
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An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
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Join us in Cambridge on 10 December for the @camglamresearch.bsky.social Michaelmas Term Keynote Lecture,
‘Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges’, delivered by Pam Soltis.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/repurposin...
‘Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges’, delivered by Pam Soltis.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/repurposin...
Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections
CCC Michaelmas Keynote Lecture 2025 delivered by Pamela S. Soltis, Distinguished Professor, Curator, Director, UF Biodiversity Institute
www.eventbrite.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Join us in Cambridge on 10 December for the @camglamresearch.bsky.social Michaelmas Term Keynote Lecture,
‘Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges’, delivered by Pam Soltis.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/repurposin...
‘Repurposing Digitised Natural History Collections for 21st-Century Challenges’, delivered by Pam Soltis.
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/repurposin...
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Read this whole thread.
It is worth it!
It is worth it!
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Read this whole thread.
It is worth it!
It is worth it!
Delighted to see this beautiful book turn up in the post. Part of the terrific British Wildlife Collection, published by Bloomsbury @chiffchat.bsky.social. I have loved the forms of marine phyla since A level biology
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Delighted to see this beautiful book turn up in the post. Part of the terrific British Wildlife Collection, published by Bloomsbury @chiffchat.bsky.social. I have loved the forms of marine phyla since A level biology
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In the second instalment of her blog series concerning the botany and the British Empire, Esme Barrell reflects on the colonial roots of the Royal Botanical Gardens and the appropriation of Indigenous botanical knowledge by British scientists.
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/red-bark-and...
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/red-bark-and...
Red Bark and Empire: Unearthing the Colonial Roots of Kew Gardens | MBC
Part One – Kew Gardens This project began with a single plant. While researching in the archives of the Royal […]
museumofbritishcolonialism.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
In the second instalment of her blog series concerning the botany and the British Empire, Esme Barrell reflects on the colonial roots of the Royal Botanical Gardens and the appropriation of Indigenous botanical knowledge by British scientists.
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/red-bark-and...
museumofbritishcolonialism.org/red-bark-and...
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Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
Isis | Vol 116, No 4
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
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‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Don’t miss the first talk in the WOMNH (Women in Natural History Museums and Collections) Online Fall Seminar Series! Monday 24 November 2025, 4:00–5:00 pm CET
by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”
by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Don’t miss the first talk in the WOMNH (Women in Natural History Museums and Collections) Online Fall Seminar Series! Monday 24 November 2025, 4:00–5:00 pm CET
by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”
by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”