Now Edwin Rose (@edwinrose.bsky.social) moves on to birds, and the original bird of paradise specimen that was illustrated for the title image of Pennant's 'Indian Zoology' - now present in the museum, with starling feet attached to replace the lost originals

New @ H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @njcornish.bsky.social (@unisouthampton.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @rbgkew.bsky.social )’s on @edwinrose.bsky.social (@hpsleeds.bsky.social‬)’s _Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820_, @upittpress.bsky.social 2025 @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Delighted to see this recent citation of my research on BBC Lincolnshire! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @hpsleeds.bsky.social @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social

Delighted to have contributed to this - Henslow was a truly fascinating character who contributed to both botanical science and pedagogy

Celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge. It's almost 200 years to the day since Henslow took an oath before the Vice Chancellor as 'King's Reader in Botany' on 10 October 1825. Find out more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9 @cam.ac.uk

Fascinating talk by @edwinrose.bsky.social on his new book, Reading the World - revealing the important influence of indigenous communities and their local names and ecological knowledge on 18th century naturalists in naming and making sense of the natural world. #UnknownWales #AmgeueddfaCymru

Had a wonderful visit to @nhm-london.bsky.social Tring last week to examine some of the bird collection compiled by the naturalist Thomas Pennant (1726-98) - a very rare surviving 18th century ornithological collection. @curioustravellers.bsky.social

Delighted to see my recent article on the life of Thomas Martyn (1735-1825), third professor of botany at Cambridge in print! www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/... @theul.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social @hpsleeds.bsky.social @sidneysussex.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to speaking at the Chau Chak Wing Museum on Thursday evening - do come along if you are in Sydney!

Very much looking forward to speaking at the Chau Chak Wing Museum on Thursday evening - do come along if you are in Sydney!

Join us at the Chau Chak Wing Museum for an event on 24 July when @edwinrose.bsky.social speaks on his new book 'Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History'. www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats...

Looking forward to speaking at @seamuseum.bsky.social on Sunday! Do come along if you are around.

📚 Author Talk: Reading the World: Natural History, 1760–1820 Join historian Edwin D. Rose talking about his new work exploring the role of natural history in shaping global knowledge during the age of empire. Book now http://bit.ly/454uMzm

Looking forward to talking about my new book for the Auckland Botanical Society this evening! Do feel free to come along if you are around.

And just like that our exhibition Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White is over 🥲. I’ve loved the whole process of exhibition design, installation, and events, and I’m so proud of what we created for @curioustravellers.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking at the Singapore Botanic Gardens next week - do come along if you are around! www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/whats-ha...

Looking forward to speaking at the Singapore Botanic Gardens next week - do come along if you are around! www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/whats-ha...

Calling all artistic sleuths on Bluesky - if you know anything about the missing paintings from the home of Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant pictured here, please get in touch with @edwinrose.bsky.social!

Now @edwinrose.bsky.social tells us (with appropriate shock and horror) of the large lost painting of penguins by Peter Paillou from Pennant's Downing Hall, sold at auction and currently unaccounted for. Pictured (almost visibly...) in the slide - if you've ever seen it, get in touch!

The Trust's 2024 Annual Review is now available online. The fantastic spread of projects featured provides a glimpse into the research we support across the disciplines. Read now: leverhulme.ac.uk/annual-review

This sounds a fascinating talk. Wish I was in Whitby.

Looking forward to speaking about my new book at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby tomorrow @whitbynats.bsky.social @handhyorkshire.bsky.social

Come and hear me talk about the Cook voyages, natural history and Indigenous knowledge on 30th May!

Beautiful botanical details inside & out in this recent acquisition from @quaritch1847.bsky.social: Henrietta Moriarty's 'Viridarium: coloured plates of greenhouse plants' (London, 1806), produced in part to free her from destitution after the early death of her dissolute husband. CUL 8000.d.1621.

We're not asking you to *judge* a book by its cover (this one has some lovely artwork inside), just that you don't look past it! #Bookbinding #SpecialBooks #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Bookbindings #Doublure #FineBinding Alt text: A video on the terminology, relative cost, and practice of binding books.

Come and hear me talk about the Cook voyages, natural history and Indigenous knowledge on 30th May!

Last day to sign up for this event, taking place tomorrow, Wednesday 21 May in the Whipple Museum.

The Cambridge launch for my new book, Reading the World, is at the Whipple Museum, 5-7pm on Wednesday 21st May. Please do sign up if you would like to come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Superfloof at @cuherb.bsky.social yesterday! 💕

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

Only a few days left to apply for this - come work with me, @jontopham.bsky.social @hpsleeds.bsky.social and @lizsmith.bsky.social and Katrina Dean @theul.bsky.social

Just been at Kew Gardens this week for some archival research and got to check out the awesome exhibition by @edwinrose.bsky.social called 'Botanical Revolutions 1776-1848' - worth a viewing if you happen to be visiting Kew anytime soon! #naturalhistory #botany #exhibition #HistSTM #KewGardens

📣The Charles Darwin Archive has been added to the prestigious @unesco.org International Memory of the World Register! 🔎Read the full story: loom.ly/g_s0slk

Only a few days left to apply for this - come work with me, @jontopham.bsky.social @hpsleeds.bsky.social and @lizsmith.bsky.social and Katrina Dean @theul.bsky.social

The Cambridge launch for my new book, Reading the World, is at the Whipple Museum, 5-7pm on Wednesday 21st May. Please do sign up if you would like to come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Nice to see that @edwinrose.bsky.social's new book (Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820) is prominently featured in @upittpress.bsky.social's #ASEH25 display! Further info: upittpress.org/books/978082... #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜

#ASEH25 kicks off today here in Pittsburgh! @andcleverness.bsky.social will be at our booth throughout the conference. Go say hello and peruse our books 📚

Darwin Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science @edwinrose.bsky.social connected with alumni in New York last week, giving a talk on George Howard Darwin and the Public Interpretation of The Tides. Thank you to Cambridge in America for hosting the event, and to everyone who attended!

The display, including Thomas Pennant's extra illustrated copy of British Zoology (1776-77), associated with USA launch for my new book Reading the World at Arader Galleries, New York, last Wednesday. Reading the World can be ordered here: upittpress.org/books/978082...

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

Really recommend this new small exhibition in Kew's Library Reading Room exploring shifts in the practices of 18 and 19C botany and how indigenous knowledge was used and acknowledged #BotanicalRevolutions #Archives #Kew

Edwin D. Rose, Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 - @upittpress.bsky.social, March 2025 upittpress.org/books/978082...

Nice to see this hand-coloured copy of Leonhart Fuchs’s herbal (1542) on display as part of ‘Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World’, the wonderful new exhibition @theul.bsky.social curated by James Freeman.

Looking forward to presenting on my book at Arader Galleries, New York City on 2 April. Do sign up to attend if you are around! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @upittpress.bsky.social

A very happy pub day to Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 by @edwinrose.bsky.social! upittpress.org/books/978082...

Just received the first hard copies of my book Reading the World @upittpress.bsky.social USA Orders: upittpress.org/books/978082... UK/Worldwide Orders: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-...

Just received the first hard copies of my book Reading the World @upittpress.bsky.social USA Orders: upittpress.org/books/978082... UK/Worldwide Orders: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Reading-the-...

Looking forward to presenting on my book at Arader Galleries, New York City on 2 April. Do sign up to attend if you are around! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @upittpress.bsky.social

Our very first live demonstration (online) on how to conserve loose 18th- and early 19th-C papers! With our experienced volunteer and retired paper conservator, John Abbott, and conservator Janet Ashdown. This is being recorded, will be on our YouTube channel soon: www.youtube.com/linneansociety

Describing a Basking Shark hunt on Arran is one of the more disturbing animal encounters in Pennant's Scottish Tours They "permit the near approach of man: will suffer a boat to follow them without accelerating their motion, till it comes almost within contact, when a harpooner strikes his weapon"