Do come along to my lecture for the Cambridge Alumni Festival on Saturday 19th September entitled 'Origins: Thinking About the Darwins as a Scientific Dynasty' at 5:45pm at the Lady Mitchell Hall. Sign up here: my.darwin.cam.ac.uk/civicrm/even... Image:Cambridge University Library, DAR 219:12.

Do come along to my lecture for the Cambridge Alumni Festival on Saturday 19th September entitled 'Origins: Thinking About the Darwins as a Scientific Dynasty' at 5:45pm at the Lady Mitchell Hall. Sign up here: my.darwin.cam.ac.uk/civicrm/even... Image:Cambridge University Library, DAR 219:12.

In Reading the World, Rose "uncover[s] a dynamic – and at times divisive – world in which masculinity and social status acted alongside national and imperial politics to define the shape and character of the scientific information." Easterby-Smith's review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Stephanie Holt @stephholtnh.bsky.social reviews 'Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760–1820', by Edwin D. Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @upittpress.bsky.social

Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760–1820, by Edwin D. Rose

Nestled neatly within the cross-disciplinary world of the history of science, ­eighteenth- (and early nineteenth-) century studies, and the history of the

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A truly fantastic review of Reading the World by Sarah Easterby-Smith in Metascience: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Imagine having "mucus' on your gravestone!

Edwin Rose@edwinrose.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thought I'd have a look at a few Darwin related things in Edinburgh following the fantastic HSS/ESHS conference this week, including the grave of Charles Darwin (1758-78), a medical student in the city and son of Erasmus Darwin, and a memorial to his more famous nephew.

Thought I'd have a look at a few Darwin related things in Edinburgh following the fantastic HSS/ESHS conference this week, including the grave of Charles Darwin (1758-78), a medical student in the city and son of Erasmus Darwin, and a memorial to his more famous nephew.

Astonishingly beautiful and intricate lithographs of trilobites made by Josef Fetters of Prague. From V1 (1852) of Joachim Barrande's Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême, copy in the @theul.bsky.social

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @edwinrose.bsky.social joins this @englishheritage.bsky.social podcast episode. 👇 And read more about Dr Rose's Leverhulme-funded project @hpsleeds.bsky.social exploring Britain's best-known and longest-lived scientific dynasty: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

Edwin Rose@edwinrose.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Delighted to have spoken on the @englishheritage.bsky.social podcast on the 'History of Natural History' with Sabrina Villani, curator of Charles Darwin's home at Down House, and Amy Matthews: open.spotify.com/episode/744D...

🌿 This sprig of wild mignonette (Reseda lutea) was picked from a cornfield near Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, in 1784 – and it still survives today in a remarkable herbarium compiled by Edward Hanmer. Explore it online in @camdiglib.bsky.social https://loom.ly/Nf6YOy8 (MS Add.10547)

A pleasure to read a very thoughtful review of my book Reading the World by Isabelle Charmantier, head of Collections @linneansociety.bsky.social in The Book Collector. The review is here (summer 2026): thebookcollector.co.uk/recent-issues/ And the book here: upittpress.org/books/978082...

Fantastic to see Charles Darwin's hands in a copy of Claud Warren's The Life-size Outlines of the Hands of Twenty -four Celebrated Persons (1882) on @debscoltham.bsky.social's stall at Firsts Rare Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery yesterday! @abararebooks.bsky.social

Fantastic to see Charles Darwin's hands in a copy of Claud Warren's The Life-size Outlines of the Hands of Twenty -four Celebrated Persons (1882) on @debscoltham.bsky.social's stall at Firsts Rare Book Fair at the Saatchi Gallery yesterday! @abararebooks.bsky.social

Delighted to have spoken on the @englishheritage.bsky.social podcast on the 'History of Natural History' with Sabrina Villani, curator of Charles Darwin's home at Down House, and Amy Matthews: open.spotify.com/episode/744D...

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Seeing the evening light through the memorial window to Leonard Jenyns (1800-93) in his former church at Swaffhan Bulbeck yesterday. Jenyns was the original choice for the naturalist to accompany the second Beagle voyage but could not due to parish duties. Charles Darwin was his replacement.

Delighted to have spoken on the @englishheritage.bsky.social podcast on the 'History of Natural History' with Sabrina Villani, curator of Charles Darwin's home at Down House, and Amy Matthews: open.spotify.com/episode/744D...

A history of natural history

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Yes, it was a great pleasure to speak for this!

Michael D. Barton@darwinsbulldog.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out this episode of the English Heritage Podcast re: #CharlesDarwin at Down House, and the history of natural history (w/ Sabrina Villani of English Heritage & @edwinrose.bsky.social of @hpsleeds.bsky.social): open.spotify.com/episode/744D... #HPS #histsci

Check out this episode of the English Heritage Podcast re: #CharlesDarwin at Down House, and the history of natural history (w/ Sabrina Villani of English Heritage & @edwinrose.bsky.social of @hpsleeds.bsky.social): open.spotify.com/episode/744D... #HPS #histsci

A history of natural history

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Delighted to be speaking on this on Wednesday - do feel free to come along if you are around!

Cambridge Philosophical Society@camphilsoc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Dr Edwin Rose will talk on 'A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge's First Scientific Journal, 1821–1928'. Wed 6th May at 5.30pm in the Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse. Please email the Secretary to attend: tck34@cam.ac.uk

Delighted to be speaking on this on Wednesday - do feel free to come along if you are around!

Cambridge Philosophical Society@camphilsoc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Dr Edwin Rose will talk on 'A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge's First Scientific Journal, 1821–1928'. Wed 6th May at 5.30pm in the Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse. Please email the Secretary to attend: tck34@cam.ac.uk

Dr Edwin Rose will talk on 'A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge's First Scientific Journal, 1821–1928'. Wed 6th May at 5.30pm in the Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse. Please email the Secretary to attend: tck34@cam.ac.uk

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look! cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

Video of @edwinrose.bsky.social's talk last week on his book "Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820," for the @linneansociety.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdiV... #histsci #HPS

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Happy Birthday Charles Darwin, 217 today. 🎉 Very nice to see his portrait at @linneansociety.bsky.social this evening. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed

Really looking forward to speaking @linneansociety.bsky.social on Wednesday 4 February - do come along if you are free!

The Linnean Society of London@linneansociety.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What counted as knowledge in Britain’s age of exploration...and who decided? On Wed 4 Feb, @edwinrose.bsky.social explores how natural knowledge was shaped by travel, collecting, and exchange - and whose voices were left out. 6–8pm · Burlington House Find out more: buff.ly/ypMIRvt

Really looking forward to speaking @linneansociety.bsky.social on Wednesday 4 February - do come along if you are free!

The Linnean Society of London@linneansociety.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What counted as knowledge in Britain’s age of exploration...and who decided? On Wed 4 Feb, @edwinrose.bsky.social explores how natural knowledge was shaped by travel, collecting, and exchange - and whose voices were left out. 6–8pm · Burlington House Find out more: buff.ly/ypMIRvt

What counted as knowledge in Britain’s age of exploration...and who decided? On Wed 4 Feb, @edwinrose.bsky.social explores how natural knowledge was shaped by travel, collecting, and exchange - and whose voices were left out. 6–8pm · Burlington House Find out more: buff.ly/ypMIRvt

"It is thanks to Tupaia’s skill as a linguist that European botanists were able to discover the Māori names and uses for many of the plants they were observing for the first time, according to Rose." @nichecanada.bsky.social

Edwin Rose@edwinrose.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Delighted to see this recent article in the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social by @donnalferguson.bsky.social on some of the research outputs for the Naming Species in the South Pacific project: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl... With thanks to our collaborators, @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social

A true delight to have worked with @andreahart.bsky.social @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social on this project-only the tip of the iceberg of an extraordinary collection!

Andrea Hart@andreahart.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Very proud to have worked with @edwinrose.bsky.social and our other partners in New Zealand and at Cambridge on this. Even happier to see the fruits of Sydney Parkinson’s skill and efforts in glorious high resolution detail nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44... #botanicalart #collaboration

Really exciting project

Edwin Rose@edwinrose.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Delighted to see this recent article in the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social by @donnalferguson.bsky.social on some of the research outputs for the Naming Species in the South Pacific project: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl... With thanks to our collaborators, @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social