Botanical woodcuts from 'Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, Or, An Herball of Large Extent’ by John Parkinson. London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1640.

I saw this at Boston Public Library Special Collections.

#rarebooks #woodcuts #herbal #botany #flowerillustration

If only the victorians treated animals like this 🥺 Obaysch would be living in luxury

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I had the fortunate opportunity to visit The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy.

The museum has been open to the public since 1996, but it has been used by students since 1828, two years after the founding of London Zoo.

***Dissertation Update***

First chapter has been researched and is ready to be written. This chapter will focus on the acclimatisation society of England, in an attempt to illustrate the peculiar Victorian relationship with exotic animals.

Reading some tour guides from the ZSL archives - interesting quote so far hippopotamus meat is described as ‘succulent’ and the layer of fat makes ‘great bacon’

Sometimes things do not go according to plan ... I may have been unrealistic with the idea that I could base my MA dissertation around 3 animal subjects 🤷‍♀️😬

The elasticity of the British class system is one of my biggest fascinations with the Victorian period - Peter Bailey's article "Will the Real Bill Banks Please Stand Up?" really captured my imagination during my undergrad. And in some ways it still does.

At the museum for natural history in Copenhagen, they have a wonderful reconstruction of Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities - famously depicted in this print from 1655:

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

The famous academic Michel Foucault theories of self governance - see Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. This theory poses an ideal prison design.

Hi just wanted to give a brief overview of myself before I get super into this platform. My name is Josh and I'm a History student who focuses mainly on Victorian Social and Cultural History. #SkyHistorian

This account is to log my MA dissertation research in a consumable fashion, feel free to browse and comment on anything ❤️