Kiri Ross-Jones
@kirirj.bsky.social
Botany (and botanicals) loving archivist, and occasional forest school assistant 🌿 All views are own.
Exploring belonging and connection, through making with @jacquir711.bsky.social at the fabulous #CreativeConnections symposium
October 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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!
Last week our Library & Archives team welcomed 60 students from Graphic Comms at the University of Southampton to explore themes around plant histories, challenging perspectives through engagement with the archive. We look forward to seeing their interpretations of the display we prepared! #KewLA
October 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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!
September 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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!
August 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Birthday trip to beautiful @kneppwilding.bsky.social!
A fabulous drink on Isola Bella!
August 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A fabulous drink on Isola Bella!
I do love this photo! Happy friendship day!
Many friendships have been made at Kew Gardens! To celebrate #InternationalFriendshipDay here is an image of our female gardeners during WWII, sharing a hot drink together in their break from gardening duties! #KewLA
July 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I do love this photo! Happy friendship day!
Now that’s how you do #Glastonbury #TheProdigy
June 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Now that’s how you do #Glastonbury #TheProdigy
Very much enjoying @rbgkew.bsky.social @englishheritage.bsky.social Gardens and Empire conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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 ✨
June 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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!
Happy #InternationalArchivesDay! Why not delve deeper into bits of our collections today? 📜
Browse our catalogued items: www2.calmview.co.uk/kew/calmview/
Try reading Sir Joseph Hooker's handwriting: jdhooker.kew.org/p/jdh
Find out more about Wardian cases: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtiM...
#KewLA
Browse our catalogued items: www2.calmview.co.uk/kew/calmview/
Try reading Sir Joseph Hooker's handwriting: jdhooker.kew.org/p/jdh
Find out more about Wardian cases: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtiM...
#KewLA
June 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Happy International Archives Day!
Reposted by Kiri Ross-Jones
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
May 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
FREE behind the scenes tours! Come and find out more about our records relating to trees, through an exciting collaboration with @urbantreefest.bsky.social 🌲 🌳
Our Library & Archive teams are hosting a show-and-tell session on 12 May as part of @urbantreefest.bsky.social! 🌳
Come along to see great materials all to do with Kew's trees. It's first come first serve, so make sure to book soon! ⏰ #KewLA
Find out more 👇
urbantreefestival.org/trees-in-kew...
Come along to see great materials all to do with Kew's trees. It's first come first serve, so make sure to book soon! ⏰ #KewLA
Find out more 👇
urbantreefestival.org/trees-in-kew...
Trees in Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives — Urban Tree Festival
Kew Gardens’ Archives and Illustrations teams will host show and tell sessions relating to themes of colonialism and deforestation, historic uses of trees, and the role of trees in cities.
urbantreefestival.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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)
Huge news today that the Darwin papers in our #KewLA #Archive collection are being added to the @unesco.org Memory of the World Register! 🗃️
Take a look at the writings of a young Charles Darwin with our Senior Archivist & Records Manager, Kiri 👇
Take a look at the writings of a young Charles Darwin with our Senior Archivist & Records Manager, Kiri 👇
April 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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 🤔
April 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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 🤔
Reposted by Kiri Ross-Jones
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
April 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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 👀
🔬 Applications are open for the UL and @universityofleeds.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship:
The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/hXILBEo
@camglamresearch.bsky.social
The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/hXILBEo
@camglamresearch.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library and University of Leeds - Collections Connections Communities
loom.ly
April 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This looks fabulous 👀
The Palm House looking fabulous in yesterday’s sunshine!
April 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The Palm House looking fabulous in yesterday’s sunshine!
Reposted by Kiri Ross-Jones
🥁 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/...
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/...
March 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🥁 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/...
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/...
Reposted by Kiri Ross-Jones
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: planthumanities@kew.org
Informal enquiries: planthumanities@kew.org
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We are seeking applications from promising early-career scientists with interesting, innovative, and viable research ideas for the Kew Research Fellowship in Plant and Fungal Science. The Kew Research...
careers.kew.org
March 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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: planthumanities@kew.org
Informal enquiries: planthumanities@kew.org
A PhD opportunity that will involve using the archives of where I now work, and where I used to work - a real archival treat 📚
PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
March 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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
February 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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!
February 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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 🧀
A Stilton cheese basket that is normally on display @themerl.bsky.social. Retrieved today, ready for a visiting researcher to look at tomorrow.
January 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Love this - a lovely basket specially for cheese 🧀
Spent the morning at UCL and got to see Jeremy - what a bequest!
January 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Spent the morning at UCL and got to see Jeremy - what a bequest!
Back where it all started!
December 30, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Back where it all started!