Edwin Rose

A title image for 'Indian Zoology' with an illustration of a framed, swooping bird of paradise arching over a hilly landscape

Now Edwin Rose (@edwinrose.bsky.social) moves on to birds, and the original bird of paradise specimen that was illustrated for the title image of Pennant's 'Indian Zoology' - now present in the museum, with starling feet attached to replace the lost originals

New @ H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out @njcornish.bsky.social (@unisouthampton.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @rbgkew.bsky.social )’s on @edwinrose.bsky.social (@hpsleeds.bsky.social‬)’s _Reading the World: British Practice of Natural History, 1760-1820_, @upittpress.bsky.social 2025

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Joseph Banks: the man who collected the world The pioneering naturalist and botanist helped transform European knowledge of the natural world.

Delighted to see this recent citation of my research on BBC Lincolnshire! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @hpsleeds.bsky.social @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social

Delighted to have contributed to this - Henslow was a truly fascinating character who contributed to both botanical science and pedagogy

Geological map of Anglesey from J.S. Henslow's 1822 article Geological Description of Anglesea. Credit: Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Henslow's botanical drawings. Credit: University of Cambridge.

Celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

It's almost 200 years to the day since Henslow took an oath before the Vice Chancellor as 'King's Reader in Botany' on 10 October 1825.

Find out more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9

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Fascinating talk by @edwinrose.bsky.social on his new book, Reading the World - revealing the important influence of indigenous communities and their local names and ecological knowledge on 18th century naturalists in naming and making sense of the natural world.
#UnknownWales #AmgeueddfaCymru

And thanks to @stephholtnh.bsky.social and Andy Taylor for the photos!

Had a wonderful visit to @nhm-london.bsky.social Tring last week to examine some of the bird collection compiled by the naturalist Thomas Pennant (1726-98) - a very rare surviving 18th century ornithological collection. @curioustravellers.bsky.social

@cuherb.bsky.social

The autobiography of Thomas Martyn (1735–1825), naturalist, cleric, and Cambridge professor of botany | Archives of Natural History A little-known autobiography of the Reverend Thomas Martyn (1735–1825), Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge between 1762 and 1825, is transcribed and published here for the first time. ...

Delighted to see my recent article on the life of Thomas Martyn (1735-1825), third professor of botany at Cambridge in print! www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/... @theul.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social @hpsleeds.bsky.social @sidneysussex.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to speaking at the Chau Chak Wing Museum on Thursday evening - do come along if you are in Sydney!

Very much looking forward to speaking at the Chau Chak Wing Museum on Thursday evening - do come along if you are in Sydney!

Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History 1760-1820 24 July 6-7pm, Chau Chak Wing Museum. A talk on Dr Edwin Rose’s new book researching the practices of Natural History in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Join us at the Chau Chak Wing Museum for an event on 24 July when @edwinrose.bsky.social speaks on his new book 'Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History'.

www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats...

Looking forward to speaking at @seamuseum.bsky.social on Sunday! Do come along if you are around.

📚 Author Talk: Reading the World: Natural History, 1760–1820

Join historian Edwin D. Rose talking about his new work exploring the role of natural history in shaping global knowledge during the age of empire.

Book now http://bit.ly/454uMzm

Looking forward to talking about my new book for the Auckland Botanical Society this evening! Do feel free to come along if you are around.

And just like that our exhibition Curious Minds: Thomas Pennant and Gilbert White is over 🥲.
I’ve loved the whole process of exhibition design, installation, and events, and I’m so proud of what we created for @curioustravellers.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking at the Singapore Botanic Gardens next week - do come along if you are around! www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/whats-ha...

Looking forward to speaking at the Singapore Botanic Gardens next week - do come along if you are around! www.nparks.gov.sg/sbg/whats-ha...

Calling all artistic sleuths on Bluesky - if you know anything about the missing paintings from the home of Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant pictured here, please get in touch with @edwinrose.bsky.social!

Yes, here is a clearer image showing the penguins by Peter Paillou and a plate Pennant commissioned that reproduces one of the other images from this set of four that represents species from the arctic - do let me know if you know where they are!

A man in a jacket with widespread arms and a wide eyed expression speaks beneath a blurred black and white slide showing a painted penguin

Now @edwinrose.bsky.social tells us (with appropriate shock and horror) of the large lost painting of penguins by Peter Paillou from Pennant's Downing Hall, sold at auction and currently unaccounted for.

Pictured (almost visibly...) in the slide - if you've ever seen it, get in touch!

Screenshot of a project featured in the Trust's 2024 Annual Review. Satellite image of Lake Victoria and Lake Turkana, forest clearly visible in green.

The Trust's 2024 Annual Review is now available online. The fantastic spread of projects featured provides a glimpse into the research we support across the disciplines.

Read now: leverhulme.ac.uk/annual-review

This sounds a fascinating talk. Wish I was in Whitby.

Looking forward to speaking about my new book at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby tomorrow
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Come and hear me talk about the Cook voyages, natural history and Indigenous knowledge on 30th May!

Beautiful botanical details inside & out in this recent acquisition from @quaritch1847.bsky.social: Henrietta Moriarty's 'Viridarium: coloured plates of
greenhouse plants' (London, 1806), produced in part to free her from destitution after the early death of her dissolute husband. CUL 8000.d.1621.

We're not asking you to *judge* a book by its cover (this one has some lovely artwork inside), just that you don't look past it! #Bookbinding #SpecialBooks #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Bookbindings #Doublure #FineBinding

Alt text: A video on the terminology, relative cost, and practice of binding books.

Come and hear me talk about the Cook voyages, natural history and Indigenous knowledge on 30th May!

Yes, indeed! And we certainly discussed Banks's library in the context of my undergraduate dissertation. I am, in fact, giving a talk in Aberystwyth in June: www.ticketsource.co.uk/llgcnlw/evt-...

And another in Cardiff in September...