Stories
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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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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
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On the popular names of British plants : being an explanation of the origin and meaning of the names of our indigenous and most commonly cultivated species / by R.C.A. Prior.
Prior, R. C. Alexander (Richard Chandler Alexander), 1809-1902.Date: 1879- Books
On the popular names of British plants : being an explanation of the origin and meaning of the names of our indigenous and most commonly cultivated species / by R.C.A. Prior.
Prior, R. C. Alexander (Richard Chandler Alexander), 1809-1902.Date: 1870- Books
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Essai de catalogue des noms arabes et berbères de quelques plantes, arbustes et arbres algériens et sahariens ou introduits et cultivés en Algérie / F. Foureau.
Foureau, F. (Fernand), 1850-1914.Date: 1896- Books
A dictionary of English plant names (and some products of plants) / Geoffrey Grigson.
Grigson, Geoffrey, 1905-1985.Date: 1974- Books
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The names of herbes, A.D. 1548. Edited, with an introd., an index of English names, and an indentification of the plants enumerated by Turner.
Turner, William, -1568.Date: 1881