Stories
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- 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.
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- Article
Chasing spring
Isabella Kaminski reflects on a transformative journey that saw her cycle the length of the UK, tracking the first signs of spring. She explores what the changing seasons can tell us about ourselves and the climate crisis.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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- Long read
Love, grief and assisted dying
In this deeply affecting story, Michelle Elliot explores the events and emotions around the time of her mother’s medically assisted death in Canada, where the practice is legal.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Joseph Askew - Still life with Fruit and Vegetables and Still life with Tankard and Pot Plants
Date: 1868Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/2Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
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The northern flora, or, A description of the wild plants belonging to the north and east of Scotland, with an account of their places of growth and properties. Part. 1 / by Alexander Murray.
Date: 1836- Books
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Flora Scotica; or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged according to the artificial and natural methods / by William Jackson Hooker.
Date: 1821- Archives and manuscripts
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Correspodence between Pontecorvo and Dr U C Battacharyya concerning his trip to India and alpine plant research
Date: 27 Jul 1979 - 23 Dec 1980Reference: UGC 198/5/3/1/20Part of: Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland- Books
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Flora Scotica: or, A systematic arrangement, in the Linnæan method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides / by John Lightfoot, A.M.
Date: MDCCXCII [1792]