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Alyssa Myers

@alyssamyers.bsky.social

3rd year PhD student - CDA with MMU & English Heritage - 18th c. Suburban London Villa - #social history, #material culture, #ceramics

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Heather Craddock@hcraddock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New blog up on the Places, Plants and People Archive Network website, featuring lots of beautiful images of Kew Gardens! By @alyssamyers.bsky.social collections.reading.ac.uk/places-plant...

Unearthing the Roots of Kew Gardens’ History: Images of Kew | Places, Plants and People

In this blog, Alyssa Myers reflects on her PhD placement with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Historic Royal Palaces to create a finding aid of Kew’s pre-public era history.

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Kew Gardens@rbgkew.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Did you know today is #EYAConservation day? We’re celebrating with this 1734 engraved map by John Rocque, showing the gardens, park and related buildings of the Royal Family at Kew. Our conservator has mounted it on a board for support and advises Melinex sleeves and flat storage. #KewLA

A plan of the House, Gardens, Park and Hermitage of their Majesties at Richmond by John Rocque. Shows Oven House, the Summer House, Merlin's Cave, the Hermitage, the Dairy House, the Green House and the Orangery, 'His Majesties House in Richmond' North and South prospects. Includes numbered references showed on the plan referring to other features in the Gardens; this is also written in French. Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse, Cornhill. Unmounted engraving in blue card folder. The main Gardens are depicted across three quarters of the spread with individual illustrations of buildings filling the top right-hand corner.
Alyssa Myers@alyssamyers.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Happy Halloween! Nothing says ‘haunted house’ like Merlin’s Cave that was once in @rbgkew.bsky.social. Built by William Kent for Queen Caroline, the Gothic structure featured 6 life-sized wax figures and spooky bookcases with vellum-bound books. (Image from Edmund Curll’s ‘Rarities of Richmond’.)

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