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Leonie Paterson
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Archivist at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, but all views are my own.
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Season's greetings from SCA!

This year's card image comes courtesy of Comunn Eachdraidh Nis who have been SCA’s featured Community Archive throughout 2025.

Find out more here: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/news/...
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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We're pleased to share that replanting of our Palm Houses is officially underway 🥳

This tree fern, a Dicksonia blumei, is the first to return home.

It's time to make a house a home 🌴
A tree fern being planted in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's Palm Houses. A tree fern being planted in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's Palm Houses.
December 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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English writer Jane Austen was born #OTD in 1775.

"As beloved as Shakespeare," her works include 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 (1811), 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 (1813), 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘬 (1814) & 𝘌𝘮𝘮𝘢 (1816).

#booksky #litsky #literature
A split-image graphic divided into two panels on a teal background. Left panel: A classic Regency-era portrait of Jane Austen as a young woman, seated and gazing to the side with a calm, thoughtful expression. She wears a light blue empire-waist gown with short puffed sleeves, a sheer white ruffled chemise underneath, and a white mob cap with delicate lace trim covering her dark curly hair. She holds a small brown book in her lap, with one arm resting on the arm of her chair. The background is a soft green drapery. Right panel: A modern book cover for Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. At the top, large white capital letters read "JANE AUSTEN." Below is a romantic oil painting of a young woman in early 19th-century attire—dark upswept hair adorned with pearls, a low-cut off-the-shoulder white gown with sheer sleeves, and a gold necklace—gazing softly to the side against a misty gray-green background. The title Pride and Prejudice appears in elegant white cursive script, followed by smaller text: "A Novel. In Three Volumes." and "By the author of Sense and Sensibility."
December 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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You've heard of Elf on the Shelf but how about
A book about Dolly Parton on a blue book trolley. It's Dolly on a trolley.
December 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Same view on 3 consecutive days, just as the sun is setting at 3.30pm.
🌱🌳❄️📸
#BeechgroveGarden #Aberdeenshire
3 photos of the same view of a pond in winter with trees behind. The sun is setting. The one on the left has a fiery red sunset, the middles is a cool blue, with a hint of yellow - the pond is frozen, and the one on the right is a cloudy blue
December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Staff, students & volunteers enjoyed a day in the Library & Archives making festive decorations from recycled paper @thebotanics.bsky.social @cilip.bsky.social #GreenLibraries #LoveLibraries
Christmas decorations made from recycled paper: Christmas tree, snowflakes, ribbons, stars, candy canes, stockings, and gingerbread people
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Are you ready for #ArchiveAdventCalendar to start tomorrow? Remember to use the daily hashtag and main one in your posts if you can. Only one more sleep to go!
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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What #EYABeauty lies on the inside of this unassuming folder? We're showing off Elsie Wakefield's fungi illustrations today 🍄 Wakefield became Head of Mycology at Kew Gardens in 1915 and our Archives hold her personal papers collection, which includes letters, illustrations and photographs. #KewLA
A blank grey paper folder on a brown wooden surface. Numerous coloured illustrations of mushrooms layered on top of each other so that corners and sections of pages are obscured. On each sheet there are light pencil annotations next to the illustrations.
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Did you know today is #EYAConservation day? We’re celebrating with this 1734 engraved map by John Rocque, showing the gardens, park and related buildings of the Royal Family at Kew. Our conservator has mounted it on a board for support and advises Melinex sleeves and flat storage. #KewLA
A plan of the House, Gardens, Park and Hermitage of their Majesties at Richmond by John Rocque. Shows Oven House, the Summer House, Merlin's Cave, the Hermitage, the Dairy House, the Green House and the Orangery, 'His Majesties House in Richmond' North and South prospects. Includes numbered references showed on the plan referring to other features in the Gardens; this is also written in French. Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse, Cornhill. Unmounted engraving in blue card folder. The main Gardens are depicted across three quarters of the spread with individual illustrations of buildings filling the top right-hand corner.
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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On #NationalTreeWeek we'd like to highlight the incredible efforts of Kew's past colleagues who were faced with the challenging task of moving trees across the Gardens. This photograph from Kew's Library and Archives depicts William Barron's ingenious horse-drawn tree transporter 🌳 #KewLA
Black and white photograph showing a large tree sitting in a cart attached to three horses who are ready to pull it across the Gardens. The reigns of each horse are held by a handler and the faint outline of Kew's Palm House can be seen in the background.
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Winter and summer 🌱📸🌸🌳❄️
#gardening #winter #Scotland
#Aberdeenshire #Beechgrove
2 photos of the same view - a pathed oath runs between glasshouses and potting shed. The left inage is taken in late November, snow is melting and the view is a winter monochrome; the left photo is taken in July and the area is full of colourful pots of dahlias, cosmos, agapanthus and scabious.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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😱😱😱
jtullock.bsky.social Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · Nov 12
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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#thebandghost
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Many Kew staff, however, never returned. Their names are honoured in the Temple in Arethusa at Kew Gardens, a lasting memoir to their courage.

Learn more 👉 ow.ly/gORT50XpukT

For archive enquiries: archive@kew.org

#ArmisiticeDay #KewLA
Floreat Kew: in remembrance
A look at the Temple of Arethusa and its significance
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November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Today on #ArmisticeDay, we're remembering the Kew staff who served during both World Wars and balanced their lives in science and horticulture with duty and sacrifice 🧵👇

#KewLA
Herbarium illustration of a paper showing colour code bar at the top of the image.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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A Garden Tiger for #MothFaceFriday #teammoth
The face of a Garden Tiger Moth.
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Gravestone of Elizabeth Work, 1743, in Eastford, Connecticut. Carved by an unidentified local carver who is known as the “Eastford Dot Carver.”
November 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Another week, another new thing at Orkney Library & Archive! 🛠️

Libraries are not just about books and this week we're launching our loanable TOOL collection! 🔧

We have 3 different toolkits available and we'll be adding more items very soon. 🪛

#GreenLibraries #LoveLibraries
A toolbox opened up to show tools inside
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Celebrating spooky season with botanical art 🎨 🎃

- The black bat flower (Tacca chantrieri) by Billy Showell, and Eve Reid Bennett (1932-2006) who taught botanical illustration at the Garden for many years.
- Bat by Mungo Park (1771-1806)
- Devil's pumpkin by an unknown artist
Botanical illustration of the black bat flower (Tacca chantrieri) by Billy Showell. Botanical illustration of the black bat flower (Tacca chantrieri) by Eve Reid Bennett. Botanical illustration of a bat by Mungo Park. Botanical illustration of a devil's pumpkin in a copy of an illustration from Cavanille’s “Monadelphiae classis dissertationes decem. Diss. 10: De Passiflora”.
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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More from the Wellcome collection.
Morcella crassipes, by R. Baker, April. 1896, at Claverton. crassipes meaning thick-footed or thick-stemmed.
One of its vernacular names is Big-foot Morel.
Possibly painted at an art class in the Severn region of Clevedon, Avon. @botanicalmartin.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Thought for the day. Given the risks around disinformation in the run up to the Scottish elections, would it be feasible to produce digital or print "report cards" for current MSPs? Attendance, voting record, funding, etc, all based on published information. Possible @theferret.scot @fullfact.org ?
October 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Riot Women review – Sally Wainwright’s menopausal punk drama is one of her best
Riot Women review – Sally Wainwright’s menopausal punk drama is one of her best
This high-pedigree TV drama about midlife women who form a punk band is up there with Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. It’s rich, plot-packed, and perfectly seasoned with humour
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Please please watch Riot Women. It is tough, uncompromising, and brilliant, but deep down joyful bit.ly/48wo3Rc
How Sally Wainwright made musicians out of actors for Riot Women
Tamsin Greig, Lorraine Ashbourne and Amelia Bullmore tell of ‘terrifying’ music lessons for Wainwright’s new punk-rock drama for the BBC
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October 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Huge news from the Edinburgh Journal of Botany - its entire archive is now freely available online! 🥳

This moment has been years in the making. Explore more than a century's worth of scientific research 👇
ejbotany.bsky.social Edinburgh Journal of Botany @ejbotany.bsky.social · Oct 8
Marking 125 years of #EJBotany #OpenAccess and its forerunner, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are delighted to announce that ALL content is now freely available at journals.rbge.org.uk/notes and journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb
October 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM