News, Blogs and Essays

Cereus: A Blooming Obsession

Daryl Stenvoll-Wells, Biomedia Project Manager, reflects on an extraordinary plant through the lens of migration, ritual and memory

Professor Brian G. Gardiner PPLS (1932-2021)

Thomas Spencer Cobbold’s drawings of the hidden lives of parasites

Assistant Archivist Luke Thorne reveals a lifetime of "patient and accurate labour"

Edward M Holmes: A prescriber of salves for both bodies and hearts

“…all-round naturalist and a born collector”: The correspondence collection of Edward Morell Holmes

Manuscripts and drawings of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton now on the archive catalogue!

Working from home this year, the Collections staff has markedly increased remote access to our heritage material via our catalogues and website

Edward Topsell's Reindeer

Conservator Janet Ashdown looks at Edward Topsell's 17th-century text 'The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents'