Seeing the evening light through the memorial window to Leonard Jenyns (1800-93) in his former church at Swaffhan Bulbeck yesterday. Jenyns was the original choice for the naturalist to accompany the second Beagle voyage but could not due to parish duties. Charles Darwin was his replacement.
Yes, it was a great pleasure to speak for this!
🌿 This sprig of wild mignonette (Reseda lutea) was picked from a cornfield near Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, in 1784 – and it still survives today in a remarkable herbarium compiled by Edward Hanmer.
Explore it online in @camdiglib.bsky.social
https://loom.ly/Nf6YOy8
(MS Add.10547)
Fantastic to see Charles Darwin's hands in a copy of Claud Warren's The Life-size Outlines of the Hands of Twenty -four Celebrated Persons (1882) on @debscoltham.bsky.social's stall at Firsts Rare Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery yesterday! @abararebooks.bsky.social
Check out this episode of the English Heritage Podcast re: #CharlesDarwin at Down House, and the history of natural history (w/ Sabrina Villani of English Heritage & @edwinrose.bsky.social of @hpsleeds.bsky.social):
open.spotify.com/episode/744D...
#HPS #histsci
Fantastic to see Charles Darwin's hands in a copy of Claud Warren's The Life-size Outlines of the Hands of Twenty -four Celebrated Persons (1882) on @debscoltham.bsky.social's stall at Firsts Rare Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery yesterday! @abararebooks.bsky.social
A pleasure to read a very thoughtful review of my book Reading the World by Isabelle Charmantier, head of Collections @linneansociety.bsky.social in The Book Collector.
The review is here (summer 2026): thebookcollector.co.uk/recent-issues/ And the book here: upittpress.org/books/978082...
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @edwinrose.bsky.social joins this @englishheritage.bsky.social podcast episode. 👇
And read more about Dr Rose's Leverhulme-funded project @hpsleeds.bsky.social exploring Britain's best-known and longest-lived scientific dynasty: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
Delighted to have spoken on the @englishheritage.bsky.social podcast on the 'History of Natural History' with Sabrina Villani, curator of Charles Darwin's home at Down House, and Amy Matthews:
open.spotify.com/episode/744D...
Delighted to have spoken on the @englishheritage.bsky.social podcast on the 'History of Natural History' with Sabrina Villani, curator of Charles Darwin's home at Down House, and Amy Matthews:
open.spotify.com/episode/744D...
Check out this episode of the English Heritage Podcast re: #CharlesDarwin at Down House, and the history of natural history (w/ Sabrina Villani of English Heritage & @edwinrose.bsky.social of @hpsleeds.bsky.social):
open.spotify.com/episode/744D...
#HPS #histsci
Delighted to have spoken on the @englishheritage.bsky.social podcast on the 'History of Natural History' with Sabrina Villani, curator of Charles Darwin's home at Down House, and Amy Matthews:
open.spotify.com/episode/744D...
