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.
Catalogue
- 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- Books
Amour, guerre et beauté : des ducs de Bourgogne aux Habsbourg / auteurs, Anne Autissier [and eight others].
Date: [2021]- Pictures
- Online
A balsam plant (Impatiens jerdoniae): flowering stem. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns, c. 1854.
Date: [1854-63]Reference: 26328i- Pictures
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A blue gentian (Gentiana fortunei): flowering stem. Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns, c. 1860.
Date: [1854-63]Reference: 26327i