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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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.
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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.
Catalogue
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W.M. Woodville, Medical Botany, vol. 2
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W.M. Woodville, Medical Botany, vol. 2
- Archives and manuscripts
Botany
Date: 1908-1910Reference: MSS.3277-3280Part of: Lillie, Denis Gascoigne (1888-1963), biologist- Books
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Botany of New Zealand / George Bennett.
Bennett, George, 1804-1893.Date: [1831-32]- Archives and manuscripts
Economic Botany
Date: c.1880Reference: MS.2871Part of: Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica