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
Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Biographical information on Hooker
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: MS.7907/42Part of: Hooker, Dalton Joseph, botanist (1817-1911)- Archives and manuscripts
Pearson, Richard, L.R.C.P. (1765-1836), Birmingham physician and antiquary
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7492- Books
- Online
A history of botany in the United Kingdom from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century / by J. Reynolds Green.
Date: 1914- Pictures
- Online
Palm fruits. Colour aquatint by L. Garibbo, c. 1817, after C. Bozzolini.
Bozzolini, Carolina, active 1820-1840.Date: [1817]Reference: 20694i- Books
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The fertilisation of flowers / by Prof. Hermann Müller, translated and edited by D'Arcy W. Thompson, with a preface by Charles Darwin.
Müller, Hermann, 1829-1883.Date: 1883