Brad Scott
@trichocolea.bsky.social
Working with the Sloane Herbarium @QMULsed
& @NHM_London • HPS @stsucl (1980s) • Routledge (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex
& @NHM_London • HPS @stsucl (1980s) • Routledge (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex
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Brad Scott
@trichocolea.bsky.social
· Feb 18
Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753)
Botanical collections assembled before the widespread adoption of the ‘Linnaean’ system of binomial naming often have nomenclatural significance, are increasingly utilized to investigate genetic an...
doi.org
Our data paper is out today: Collecting and cataloguing the world: the botanical collections of Hans Sloane (1660–1753).
Co-authored with Vicky Pickering, @rxcoulton.bsky.social, Julianne Nyhan and Mark Carine
doi.org/10.1080/1477...
Co-authored with Vicky Pickering, @rxcoulton.bsky.social, Julianne Nyhan and Mark Carine
doi.org/10.1080/1477...
Out on the South Downs near Firle today. Gorgeous light on the chalk landscape
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Out on the South Downs near Firle today. Gorgeous light on the chalk landscape
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We're looking forward to our conference at the Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) on Friday - read our press release to find out more!
Conference Reveals Welsh Naturalist’s Major Contributions to London’s Natural History Museum
The upcoming ‘Curious Collections’ conference at the Natural History Museum, London (November 7th) will shed new light on one of the oldest collections in the museum’s archives and explore the scienti...
www.uwtsd.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We're looking forward to our conference at the Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) on Friday - read our press release to find out more!
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Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
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Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Introduction to Latin Palaeography
ies.sas.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Back by popular demand, Introduction to Latin Palaeography will run online in February 2026 #MedievalSky 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨
@collecol.bsky.social is back! 🪲
We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along!
On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination".
All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
We've put together a great seminar series - we hope you'll come along!
On 2 Oct 11am EDT/4pm GMT we're doing a reading club - Appadurai's "The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination".
All info ⬇️ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
Collection Ecologies | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
www.chstm.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Happy Monday! 🌵 We're glad to say that this rescheduled Reading Club session is happening this week! Join us on 6 November to discuss Appadurai's article, a fantastically rich piece to raise questions connecting museums & collections, coloniality & the global/planetary, & the age of Anthropocene ✨
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Does anyone know where the Iguanodon footprints found in the Greensand near Arthur Conan Doyle's house in May 1909, and which ended up on display in his billard room, are today? I suspect they remained with the family, but there are a lot of potential museums they could have ended up in.
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Does anyone know where the Iguanodon footprints found in the Greensand near Arthur Conan Doyle's house in May 1909, and which ended up on display in his billard room, are today? I suspect they remained with the family, but there are a lot of potential museums they could have ended up in.
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Finished painting of Thuidium cymbifolium (Hawaiian name: mākole mākō pi`i) #sciart #botanicalart #watercolor
October 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Finished painting of Thuidium cymbifolium (Hawaiian name: mākole mākō pi`i) #sciart #botanicalart #watercolor
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Peter Watkins obituary
Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
www.bfi.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Peter Watkins obituary
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“The rich archival collections of Ajami literature refute the pervasive myth of Africa’s supposed illiteracy that is perpetuated by the overemphasis on African oral traditions in academia and the privileging of external sources over local chronicles.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...
TheʿAjamī script of Africa and the Sorabé manuscripts of Madagascar.
The most widely used writing system in pre-colonial Africa was the ʿAjamī script.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“The rich archival collections of Ajami literature refute the pervasive myth of Africa’s supposed illiteracy that is perpetuated by the overemphasis on African oral traditions in academia and the privileging of external sources over local chronicles.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...
The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp is one of the most extraordinary I have visited, with a beautiful collection of herbals and plant texts
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp is one of the most extraordinary I have visited, with a beautiful collection of herbals and plant texts
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Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
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Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
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An archivist just told me about this great website for German watermarks. Thanks to this website, I was able to identify a watermark on an #EarlyModern archival record and say more about the document's approximate date (which was unknown) 📜 #BookHistory 📚 🗃️ #MedievalSky
shorturl.at/neVQ6
shorturl.at/neVQ6
shorturl.at
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
An archivist just told me about this great website for German watermarks. Thanks to this website, I was able to identify a watermark on an #EarlyModern archival record and say more about the document's approximate date (which was unknown) 📜 #BookHistory 📚 🗃️ #MedievalSky
shorturl.at/neVQ6
shorturl.at/neVQ6
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Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
www.biblhertz.it
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
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Had a great day with @trichocolea.bsky.social at @rbgkew.bsky.social talking about how to read herbarium records! #PalaeographySky
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Had a great day with @trichocolea.bsky.social at @rbgkew.bsky.social talking about how to read herbarium records! #PalaeographySky
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1/8 An overview of a recent print issue, a forum on "Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) eds. @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - the forum was guest ed by @rosariolopez.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM
1/8 An overview of a recent print issue, a forum on "Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2022) eds. @whitproject.bsky.social, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberley Hutchings, & @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social - the forum was guest ed by @rosariolopez.bsky.social
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Time travel for a rainy Sunday! It's almost your last chance to listen to #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on BBC Sounds (the first episode expires in just two days). Why not climb inside a poem-time machine today? #history #listen #podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Time travel for a rainy Sunday! It's almost your last chance to listen to #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on BBC Sounds (the first episode expires in just two days). Why not climb inside a poem-time machine today? #history #listen #podcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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🔊 Join the IHR Digital History seminar Tuesday 21 Oct (17:30 BST, on Zoom) for Bronagh McShane and Felix Vanden Borre on 'Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland' #dhist
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...
Tuesday 21 October 2025 - Bronagh McShane and Felix Vanden Borre (Trinity College Dublin): Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Irela...
This seminar is 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm BST live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/93388586494 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird Abstract: This paper explores how digita...
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🔊 Join the IHR Digital History seminar Tuesday 21 Oct (17:30 BST, on Zoom) for Bronagh McShane and Felix Vanden Borre on 'Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland' #dhist
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...
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Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
October 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
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This Monday, October 13. The event is blended - at 2 pm (Italy time). Contact me or email for link and details
#environmentalhistory #envhist #plantstudies #botany #histsci #histphilo #agriculture #rustics_philo
#environmentalhistory #envhist #plantstudies #botany #histsci #histphilo #agriculture #rustics_philo
As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory
October 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This Monday, October 13. The event is blended - at 2 pm (Italy time). Contact me or email for link and details
#environmentalhistory #envhist #plantstudies #botany #histsci #histphilo #agriculture #rustics_philo
#environmentalhistory #envhist #plantstudies #botany #histsci #histphilo #agriculture #rustics_philo
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🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October.
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
October 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October.
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
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As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory
October 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory
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Want to procure the paperback edition of my book? Go to Routledge's website and use the code TAOC25 to get a 25% discount. www.jenniferhowes.com/the-art-of-a...
October 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Want to procure the paperback edition of my book? Go to Routledge's website and use the code TAOC25 to get a 25% discount. www.jenniferhowes.com/the-art-of-a...
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'The transience of a flicker of fire [...] compels us to grapple with histories of the ephemeral and the impermanent, even within those places that seem built to last.'
Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt on Knole's connections to colonial history:
Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt on Knole's connections to colonial history:
Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House
Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
'The transience of a flicker of fire [...] compels us to grapple with histories of the ephemeral and the impermanent, even within those places that seem built to last.'
Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt on Knole's connections to colonial history:
Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt on Knole's connections to colonial history:
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I haven't read the David Wootton review of @philipcball.bsky.social's Alchemy book, but Philip's response is insightful and well worth reading #histSTM philipball86.substack.com/p/was-alchem...
Was alchemy a load of nonsense?
David Wootton seems to think so; I disagree.
philipball86.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I haven't read the David Wootton review of @philipcball.bsky.social's Alchemy book, but Philip's response is insightful and well worth reading #histSTM philipball86.substack.com/p/was-alchem...