Richard Coulton
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Richard Coulton
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I research eighteenth-century literature and culture and teach English + Digital Humanities at QMUL. Graduate supervision principally around history of gardening and plant humanities.
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Please share: funded 4 yr PhD with #UlsterMuseum and @qmul.ac.uk funded by @ukri.org from Oct 2025. Would suit someone with interests in natural history and Ireland in c18-c19. Potential focus on #DigitalHistory #HistSTM #EnvHums. Apply by 23 May @ 5pm.

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Pages from John Templeton's Hibernian Flora manuscript describing and depicting Orobanche alba (native Broomrape plant).
May 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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encountered this and other barely catalogued "Oriental Manuscripts" (apparently Tibetan) at Hampshire Records Office (26M62/BOX/31) -- if any #skystorians can decipher the second part of the pencil annotation, or if anyone knows the script and wants more detail, do get in touch
Snippet view of the top section from a South or East Asian manuscript of uncertain date. Vertical characters in a black ink script unknown to me at the time of writing with a red ink ruled line and title above. English Pencil annotation in an unknown hand reads "Thibetian Books taken from temple at Laree [perhaps Saree] on the...".
May 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM