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
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- Article
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.
- 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
Economic Botany
Date: c.1880Reference: MS.2871Part of: Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica- Books
Pharmacologically proven folk medicine / computerized by Economic Botany Laboratory ; J.A. Duke and K.K. Wain.
Duke, James A., 1929-2017.Date: 1981- Books
Ethnobotany of the Chácobo Indians, Beni, Bolivia / Brian M. Boom.
Boom, Brian M. (Brian Morey)Date: 1987- Books
The Wellcome Materia Medica Collection and Herbarium as research aids / J.K. Crellin.
Crellin, J. K.Date: [1967]- Books
The healing forest : medicinal and toxic plants of the northwest Amazonia / Richard Evans Schultes and Robert F. Raffauf ; foreword by H.R.H. Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Schultes, Richard Evans.Date: [1990], ©1990