Cosy! All in one room, but at least it’s double air beds and Christmas bedding right?! #DuvetKnowItsChristmas. Don’t forget to donate to www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

🎨 Art Workshops at Kew 📚 Second round of creative art workshops inspired by Persia Reimagined: From Herbarium to Heritage 📅 15 January 2026 🕙 10:45 or 13:45 (90 minutes) 📍 Library & Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Morning 10:45 : lnkd.in/ek2GZtQn Afternoon 13:45 : lnkd.in/eHZPTqbj

📣📣 FREE talk and workshops relating to our Persia Reimagined exhibition

So proud of this project, which has had so many lovely outcomes! And an absolute pleasure to work with the lovely @shabnambalouch.bsky.social 🎨🌺🇮🇷

Happy #EYAInclusion Day! We believe archives are for everyone, and we recently hosted workshops with Persian communities who visited our current exhibition & created beautiful booklets inspired by the items on display! It's vital that anyone who wants to use archives is able to access them. #KewLA

For #EYADigital, we’re looking back at how Kew managed its corporate records - from filing paper documents to reviewing which should be archived or securely destroyed. While some paper files remain, we now support staff in managing records effectively in a primarily digital environment. #KewLA

Did you know botanist Sir Joseph Hooker travelled with two Bhotea mastiff dogs? Today’s featured image for #ExploreYourArchive Week #EYAPets is a playful drawing from his letters, showing Kinchin the dog being ‘taught’ to write.

For #EYASilence, we thought it fitting to look back at a time in which the Gardens had to be silent. This instruction sheet, issued during the Blitz in WWII, and an air raid logbook detail how the frequency of bombing raids led to the regular suppression of daily operations. #KewLA

The oldest item in our archives! Although we do have older books in our library collections…

Elsie Wakefield - showing women could also do science jobs back in 1915 👑🍄

Happy #ExploreYourArchives week!

A very enjoyable Places, Plants and People Archive Network meeting @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, including the chance to see some archives! Also enjoying the Christmas lights on the bus ride back to station…

Exploring belonging and connection, through making with @jacquir711.bsky.social at the fabulous #CreativeConnections symposium

This was a great afternoon, welcoming 60 super engaged students from @unisouthampton.bsky.social to our collections!

A fabulous visit to @middletemple.bsky.social archives yesterday, for our Places, Plants and People Archive Network. A real treat to see the hall, gardens and archives!

Birthday trip to beautiful @kneppwilding.bsky.social!

A fabulous drink on Isola Bella!

I do love this photo! Happy friendship day!

Now that’s how you do #Glastonbury #TheProdigy

Very much enjoying @rbgkew.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social Gardens and Empire conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social

A super interesting workshop @rgsibg.bsky.social today, exploring GIS and archives. And a tour of the collection, which was a real treat! Just need to magic up some time to see what we can do with our archives and GIS ✨

Happy International Archives Day!

On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we look back in our Library & Archives collections at the work of Kew during the Second World War. This press release from 1943, shows how the Garden’s spaces changed their use, including the introduction of demonstration plots. #KewLA #VE80

FREE behind the scenes tours! Come and find out more about our records relating to trees, through an exciting collaboration with @urbantreefest.bsky.social 🌲 🌳🪾

Some super exciting news for our #archives, brought about by a collaboration led by @theul.bsky.social (am trying not to cringe at the reel)

Exploring Northumberland and some rather excellent cup and ring marks. Anyone know what these signified? I’ve guessed ritual, the kids think they were part of children’s games and A thinks waymarks 🤔

Delighted to see the new exhibition as part of the project 'Natural History in the Age of Revolutions' in the Library and Archives at @rbgkew.bsky.social ! Thank you to all those who made this happen, especially my Co-I Staffan Müller-Wille and Fiona Ainsworth. Free and open 1 April-19th June

This looks fabulous 👀

The Palm House looking fabulous in yesterday’s sunshine!

🥁 Drum rolls needed! Applications for the Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellowships are now OPEN! We are so excited to offer this incredible opportunity! Please, help us share the news! 2 online sandpits to meet #GLAM people @uniofcam.bsky.social Info 👇 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Post-doctoral fellowships available at Kew, closing 20 April. For proposals covering plant-people relationships, broadly defined, and using methods from the humanities, social sciences and life sciences see careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-... Informal enquiries: [email protected]

A PhD opportunity that will involve using the archives of where I now work, and where I used to work - a real archival treat 📚

A brilliant day @linneansociety.bsky.social for Rediscovering Natural History. There was even an interactive session- Using Smell to Open up Archives- with @willtullett.bsky.social and Cecilia Bembibre

Very excited to find the Water Newton silver in the BM. I grew up in Water Newton - if I’d seen The Detectorists back then, there’d have been no keeping me off those fields!

Love this - a lovely basket specially for cheese 🧀

Spent the morning at UCL and got to see Jeremy - what a bequest!

Back where it all started!

Wassailing and mulled wine!

At least he’s got Christmas bedding?! #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Lovely evening at Glow Wild!

A great session at the London Archives today! Thanks for having us.

We’re leaving Kew tomorrow and heading up to the London Archives for this joint event! Tickets can be booked here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/plants-and...

An absolute pleasure to talk at #ARA2024 yesterday, with Judy and Lucy, about our Places, Plants and People Archive Network. Super proud of our network and what we’ve achieved! (And yes, Lucy and I accidentally wore matching dresses!)

Plant goals @GardenMuseumLDN! A great day at the Museum for the Places, Plants & People Archive Network, followed by a mooch around the fabulous galleries

Stunning commute this morning, followed by a sparkly robin in the Kew sunshine!

I’m very excited about this fully FUNDED PhD, which I’ll be supervising along with UCL colleagues. Archives, critical history, Kew, environmentalism, communities – I’d be tempted! tinyurl.com/5n8x38k5

Amazing opportunity to do a funded PhD, on Kew's records of plant exchanges -a little known, wonderful series! Come & explore it with the support of a great team from Southampton & Exeter Universities, & Kew Gardens! #Plants #People #DigitialHumanities #ColonialHistory tinyurl.com/mz5auzz9

Our find in the woods today 💜

It’s #AskAnArchivist day, so we took over Kew Gardens’ Insta stories to answer your questions! ow.ly/FR5A50PTvPh