Stories
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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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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
![The British Museum: the Botanical Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, [1858].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0013524/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Books
Botanical survey of the Springbok Flats, Transvaal / [by Ernest E. Galpin].
Galpin, Ernest E.Date: [1927]- Archives and manuscripts
Botanical journey
Micheli, Pier Antonio, 1679-1737Date: 1736Reference: MS.3541Part of: Micheli, Pier Antonio (1679-1737)- Journals
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Botanical gazette
Date: 1876-1991- Journals
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Botanical bulletin
Date: 1875-1876- Books
Botanical illustration / Ronald King.
King, Ronald, 1914-Date: 1978
