@elaineshaughnessy.bsky.social
FLS @LinneanSociety.bsky.social, Trustee SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social, Associate Editor ‘Archives of Natural History’ published by @Edinburghup.bsky.social, member @IUCN-CEC, @NatSCA, @CIEP.
New in Archives of Natural History (@sochistnathist.bsky.social): "Two unpublished Darwin manuscripts in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social Museum, Cambridge: insights into Charles Darwin’s Beagle fossil collecting and its significance during and after the voyage"
bit.ly/4kKpnC8
#histsci #HPS
A deep green background with white lettering that reads "WT Stearn Essay Prize" surrounded by a old natural history illustration of a ring-tailed lemur and a yellow bird.
🚨Call for entries!🚨
We're looking for the best original, unpublished essay in the history of natural history from undergraduate & postgraduate students worldwide.
🥇£300, publication in Archives of Natural History
📅Friday 15 August
Find out eligibility & how to apply 👇🏻
shnh.org.uk/awards-honou...
IUCN SSC invites experts to contribute their expertise and perspectives to the development of the IUCN SSC Position Statement on the vital role of Natural History Museums, Herbaria, and Scientific Collections in Biodiversity Conservation: iucn.org/our-union/co...
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Pomelo (Citrus maximus) in Berthe van Nooten, Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l'Ile de Java
Thank you to everyone who joined us last Thursday as David Mabberley traced the extraordinary story of citrus - from ancient Asian forests to modern breakfast tables. 🍋 We also displayed artworks from our collections that echo chapters of his new book, including van Nooten’s vibrant Pomelo.
08.07.2025 16:36 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A date for your diary!
Following on from our wonderful Summer Meeting we'd love for you to join us at our annual AGM, which will be followed by a presentation of the Society's awards and prizes! 🏅
📅 16 July 2025
🕐 15.00 BST
Book a free ticket here 👇🏻
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shnh-annua...
The president of the SHNH, Jack Ashby, standing at the front of a lecture theatre with an opening 'welcome' slide on the screen behind him.
Here we go! 🎉
We've all gathered in Glasgow, and have a full few days lined up exploring and celebrating the intersection between our senses and natural history!
From touch to temperature, it's sure to be fascinating 🪶🐌🐻❄️
✨Booking is OPEN✨
Join us for our Summer Meeting in Glasgow on the theme A Sense of Nature! Two days of talking about history and nature, including museum tours 🥰
📅19-20 June
🏦Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow
Follow the link for the list of speakers and how to book 👇
shnh.org.uk/news/booking...
How has the humble notebook been an essential tool for celebrated thinkers throughout history? Our upcoming free exhibition, Naturalists' Notebooks, explores how naturalists recorded our world from the 18th century to today.
Open Tuesday 11 March until Saturday 20 September 2025.
bit.ly/43kBXmC
HRH The Princess Royal
We are delighted to announce that HRH The Princess Royal has accepted the Patronage of the Linnean Society.
Her Royal Highness’s support will be instrumental in enabling us to achieve our charitable objectives, and help more people engage with natural history.
Find out more: bit.ly/3DztmSy
An open wooden drawer containing pinned butterflies of varying sizes and patterns.
Applications open!
The LinneSys grant supports small-scale research and education projects in the fields of taxonomy and systematics on any organism group with grants of up to £1,500. Follow the link below!
www.linnean.org/the-... @systassn.bsky.social
📢One week to go!📢
Only seven days until our Early Career Researcher Symposium, showcasing a great range of speakers talking on everything from the Hidden Histories of Kew to Biblical Natural History 📖🌱🐇
Grab your FREE ticket, put the kettle on, and settle down 👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/early-care...
A nineteenth-century display of corals and ammonites at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris
A nineteenth-century display of molluscs at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris
A 21st-century display of corals at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris
A 21st-century display of molluscs at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris
Similar animals displayed in very different ways, both at the same #museum (@mnhn.fr) more than a century apart.
Back in the day, there was little separation between display & research collections (often *everything* went on display). Now, beautifully designed displays help catch visitors' attention
Lovely snowdrops at #AngleseyAbbey. Spring is coming
10.02.2025 22:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lovely Snowdrops spotted by our friend @shypixie76.bsky.social!
If you're also enjoying #Snowdrops coming into flower, we hope you'll like our free Snowdrop ID key to help you work out which Snowdrop is which: bsbi.org/Snowdrop_ide...
Even more #WildFlowerID resources here:
bsbi.org/plant-id-get...
We're hiring!
Could you help create a resilient future for the Botanical Society, working across our teams to support staff and volunteers?
Apply to become our first ever Administration Officer: bsbi.org/vacancies/ad...
Not applying yourself? Then please help us spread the word! Deadline: 2nd March
📅 If you are in Cambridge on the 26 February, 5-7pm, join us for our termly Keynote on the exciting topic of 'Tapping Natural History Collections for Interdisciplinary Research' by Yota Batsaki @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social
Plants, animals and rocks can tell us more than what we might think!🪷🦎🪨📖👇
📢Early Career Researcher Symposium
Later this month we have a range of ✨FREE✨ online talks covering a huge range of topics on the history of natural history.
📅Thursday 20 February
🙌Free
💻Online
Check out the link below for more information, including how to book your ticket! See you there! 🥰
Unable to get tickets to our event The Jurassic Highway? Don't worry!
Hear from researchers who recently uncovered over 200 fossil footprints in a quarry in Oxfordshire, that form the largest known dinosaur trackways site in the UK.
This event will be live streamed on YouTube: youtu.be/qYB0f5GS0cE
As it’s #JacobinDay of Hellebore here’s a colourful variety from #Cambridge #BotanicGarden.
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A thriving natural world is the foundation of economic growth and vital for health and wellbeing. Language that pits these against each other is unhelpful and deeply concerning.
Nature is not a blocker to growth.
The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?🌍
Well done for making it to the end of January.
Stop whatever you're doing and read a book to reward yourself.
If you don't have a book, then buy one from an indie bookshop, that way you'll be making TWO people happy.
🌟 Exciting news! The DHST is hosting free online workshops for early career scholars in 2025! Topics include writing book reviews, career diversity, grant writing, and more.
📅 First session: 27 Feb 2025.
💻 Register here: https://buff.ly/4eWTAep
#AcademicWorkshops #DHST2025
A black and white etching of Georg Dionysius Ehret seated whilst drawing a plant.
A historic illustration of a Haemanthus plant. It has light green leaves with a fiery orange yellow flower.
A historic coloured illustration of a Plumeria plant. It has deep green leaves and pink and white flowers.
Botanist and entomologist Georg Dionysius Ehret was born #OTD in 1708.
Born in Germany, Ehret collaborated with many scientists across Europe, including Linnaeus and Sloane, and produced hundreds of botanical illustrations 🌱🌷🌴
The genus of flowering plants Ehretia was named in his honour 🌿
A deep green background with brightly coloured snapdragon flowers. Overlaid is white text that reads "The society for the history of natural history - call for papers."
✨A Sense of Nature✨
This year our annual International Summer Meeting will explore the intersections of the senses with the history of natural history.
📆19-20 June 2025
🏛️Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow.
We're looking for papers that explore the sensory experiences 👇
shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
Talk by Roland Allen on the history of naturalists' notebooks -essential tools for thinkers such as Gessner, Linnaeus & Darwin. The talk will outline the origins of the notebook, early importance to medieval Italy & its adoption by renaissance thinkers and more! @zibaldoni.bsky.social
bit.ly/3CnOYRt
A deep green background with the words "The Society for the History of Natural History - President's Award" in white text, along with two botanical illustrations of orange flowers and a picture of the medal.
✨President's Award nominations!✨
Awarded for an individual or team’s contribution and impact in promoting and improving accessibility, inclusivity and diversity to the study of the history of natural history 🤩
Find out eligibility and how to nominate 👇
shnh.org.uk/awards-honou...
In Archives of Natural History,51(2)
"An account of the natural history and exploitation of the great auk (<i>Pinguinus impennis</i>) in ‘Histoire des pesches’, an illustrated eighteenth-century manuscript"
Iglésias SP. @isyeb.mnhn.fr ,Fournier-Sowinski J.
www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Nature’s Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums by Jack Ashby (Allen Lane) Zoologist Ashby investigates the wonders displayed – and those locked away – in cabinets around the country, tracing the biases and ideologies inherent in museum collections and considering how they can be unpicked
I still can't believe the Guardian listed #NaturesMemory as one of 2025's biggest upcoming #books. 🤩
In it, I explore how natural history #museums display nature in biased ways, the (sometimes uncomfortable) ways they came together, & how they can save the world:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
We miss Charles and all he did for SHNH
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Charles Nelson (1951–2024) in 2023. © Photograph Gina Douglas.
Sad to learn of the death this year of E. Charles Nelson (1951–2024), botanist and historian of natural history. Long-time editor of Archives of Natural History.
Splendid obituary just published by Elaine Shaughnessy
www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
