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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 1d

Great speakers at this event "The Scent of Time: Omani Frankincense from Antiquity to Innovation", London 29 October 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scent-...

The Scent of Time: Omani Frankincense from Antiquity to Innovation

Explore the captivating story of Oman's iconic frankincense trees at the 8th Oman Natural Heritage Lecture, London.

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 2d

New funded PhD opportunity at Kew Gardens/LSE: Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century. Closes 14/1/26: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 2d

Postdoc opportunity at Kew Gardens: AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions. Closes 10 Dec 25: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025

Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Apr 28

So excited to announce our conference on Gardens & Empires, with @englishheritage.bsky.social and the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June 2025, in person/online. Fantastic global speakers and panellists. Do come! Tickets £15-£40 in person; £5-£15 online. events.bl.uk/events/garde...

Gardens and Empires | British Library

The histories of plants and gardens are deeply entangled with the histories of empires. This conference investigates the impacts of these global connection

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · Apr 28

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · Apr 28

📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich:

‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’

Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants!

#PhD #postgraduate

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Harriet Atkinson @harrietatkinson.bsky.social · Apr 27

Studentship available to study MA Curating Collections and Heritage. Deadline 30th June 2025.

Open to applicants from the African or Asian diaspora or a marginalised ethnicity. The course is a collaboration between Brighton & Hove Museums and University of Brighton. Further info: lnkd.in/e8CJhtey

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Apr 24

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...

Umbrella from Myanmar: https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-225304

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Apr 21

Enjoy hunting in libraries and archives? PhD placement "Unearthing the roots of Kew Gardens’ history" with @rbgkew.bsky.social and HRP, open to UKRI-funded students. Apply by 11 May, details see link at: kew.org/science/trai... or DM me

Placements for PhD Students

We welcome PhD placement students to learn from our experts and make real contributions to our work at Kew Gardens in London or Wakehurst in Sussex.

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Apr 17

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...

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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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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Mar 18

And the Montpelier collection includes donations from Kew! We should talk...

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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...

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Mar 17

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: www.herbalhistory.org/home/seminars/

Seminars & Events

Our next online seminar Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice will be held on Wednesday, 19 March 2025. This event will be live streamed and recorded. Tickets will be availab…

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Dec 24

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

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Dec 4

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 esp. precious aim25.com/dr-andrea-ta...

Dr Andrea Tanner - Archivist, Author, Historian and Mentor (1956-2024) - AIM25

An announcement from Dr Geoff Browell, Chair of AIM25, on the death of our beloved friend and colleague, Dr Andrea Tanner. “It is with deep sadness that I have to report the death of Dr Andrea Tanner,...

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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · Nov 15

Great day at the London Archives sharing stories from the Kew Archives around plants and trade and London ports in the Victorian era. I offered a quirky story of how some London streets were once paved with sweet gum timber (Liquidambar styriciflua) from N America.

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

And the Norton Simon Museum

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Many thanks to Huntington staff for the invitation and for showing me around. Very inspiring interactions of botany and humanities. Generous fellowship programme: huntington.org/fellowships

Fellowships | The Huntington

The Huntington Library awards over 150 research fellowships annually. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at The Huntington and to participate in, and make a contr...

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

A brief side excursion to the Arts & Crafts Gamble House

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Extensive succulent and palm gardens

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

The vast Chinese garden, with ethnobotanical displays

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

The newly installed but 300-year old Shoya House illustrating traditional agriculture in Japan

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

The historic and beautiful Japanese garden. I lingered here a long time.

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

I had a few days to explore the extraordinary holdings of the library and galleries

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

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-...

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