Stories
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Catalogue
- Books
Botany in India : history and progress / editor, B.M. Johri.
Date: ©1994-- Books
Botany and history of Hortus Malabaricus / edited by K.S. Manilal.
Date: [1980], ©1980- Books
Botany in medieval and Renaissance universities / Karen Meier Reeds.
Reeds, Karen.Date: 1991- Books
Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I, Botany / Judith A. Diment [and others] : Australia.
Date: 1984- Books
Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Part 2, Botany / Judith A. Diment [and others] : Brazil, Java, Madeira, New Zealand, Society Islands and Tierra del Fuego.
Date: 1987