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Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social · Jul 10

It was a real privilege to present a paper at this wonderful and welcoming conference where I met and learned from so many lovely people. Thank you to @zarakesterton.bsky.social and @lucyjhavard.bsky.social for organising and being the perfect hosts.

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

Now we hear from Alasdair McNeill from Birkbeck on ‘Cheesemakers and Plant Knowledge in Early Modern England’! 🧀🌻 #plantsandpeople

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Sanne Steen @sanne-steen.bsky.social · Jul 12

Greatly enjoyed the Unearthed exhibition last Thursday in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. It was such a perfect ending to my visit to England for the @people-plants-2025.bsky.social conference. I was not aware of the exhibition until the last moment, so luckily I could squeeze in a visit!

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

That’s a wrap on #plantsandpeople! Thanks to all of our wonderful speakers, keynotes, artists, and attendees for two days of fantastic discussion and hands-on experimentation. Over and out from @zarakesterton.bsky.social and @lucyjhavard.bsky.social !

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

Now for the final paper of the day! We hear from Christina Welch from the University of Winchester on ‘People and Plants in the Colonial Caribbean: Indigenous and Enslaved African People’s Medicinal and Horticultural Knowledge’ 🌱 🌅 🌺 #peopleandplants

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

Next up is a paper by Margaux Shraiman entitled 'A Surinamese Butterfly Among Cape Flowers: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Copies of botanical illustrations from the Cabinet of Johanna Breda and Levinus Vincent' 🌼🦋 #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

…and a glimpse into our earlier study session at the Fitzwilliam Museum, a tour of the botanical highlights of the prints and drawings collection led by Catherine Powell Warren 🌷🖌️ #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our final panel of the conference on ‘Empire and Knowledge’ begins with Joseph Bienko’s paper on 'Baconian Buccaneering: William Dampier’s Excursion to Panama' ⛵️🌿 #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

And now for the final paper of this panel on Medical Knowledge… Lauren Owen’s from Florida State University speaks to us about recipes for health and wellness in 18thC France! #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

Yizhou Wang from Hong Kong Baptist University now presenting her paper entitled ‘Botanical Illustrations of Dandelions, Crisis, and Women in Early Modern China’! #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our third panel of the conference on Medical Knowledge kicks off with a paper from Nikolas Brusletto on ‘Botanical Knowledge in the Norwegian Black Books: Folk Medicine, Embodied Experience, and Social Networks’! #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

We have two workshops running in tandem this morning at the #plantsandpeople conference - one on botanical images at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and a practical workshop on early modern dye production with Nabil Ali! Thanks to @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social for the use of your greenhouses!

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

A few more action shots of Nabil Ali leading a wonderful dye plant tour of the @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

A beautifully sunny afternoon in the Cambridge Botanic Gardens learning about natural plant dyes with Nabil Ali 🌸🪻🌺 #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

Our second and final keynote of the day, @leoniehannan.bsky.social now speaking on ‘Plants as Process: Embodied Knowledge and the ‘Liberty of Air’’! #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

And moving to the final paper of this panel, ‘Gardening as Knowledge Practice: Historical Handbooks for Kitchen Gardens’ by Sanne Steen 🪏🪴📚 #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

And now it’s time for Janet Stiles Tyson’s paper, ‘A Curious Herbal in the Commercial Book Market’, examining Elizabeth Blackwell’s famous illustrated work #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

And we’re back, fuelled after a lovely lunch break! 🥗 🌯🥪 We begin our panel on ‘Books and Knowledge’ with a paper from Grace Murray from Birkbeck entitled ‘Marginalia and Memory Books: Writing Garden Labour in Eighteenth-Century London’ #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

The final paper of this panel is from Maja-Lisa Müller from Universität Bielefeld, entitled ‘Mushrooms and Mimesis: 18thC Wax Models as Deictic and Didactic Boundary Objects’! 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

Now we hear from Alasdair McNeill from Birkbeck on ‘Cheesemakers and Plant Knowledge in Early Modern England’! 🧀🌻 #plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

Now onto our first panel on ‘Embodied Knowledge’! We begin with a paper by Océane Fontaine Cioffi on ‘Naming Selecting, and Using Plants: Botanical Knowledge in 16thC Perfumery’… 🌸🌺🪻#plantsandpeople

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jul 8

Kicking off #plantsandpeople with a fantastic keynote from Catherine Powell-Warren on ‘Plants as Vectors in Female Artistic Community Building’!

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · May 28

Only two spaces left for our Natural Dyes workshop, and our Botanical Illustrations study session is already sold out! Grab your spot here: sites.google.com/view/plants-...

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Please note that the following workshops have limited capacity and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register using the Google Form link below and inform the organisers imm...

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · May 14

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · May 14

Registration is now OPEN for our conference 'Plants and People'! Please sign up for attendance and workshops through our website: sites.google.com/view/plants-...

Thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social & the Material Culture Forum for their generous assistance.

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · May 2

Our website is now LIVE! Follow the link to see our exciting programme, workshops, and register to attend: sites.google.com/view/plants-...

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