Christina Hourigan
Historical Geography #planthumanities PhD student at Royal Holloway & RBG Kew researching the cultural history of arboretums. Book author, former magazine editor, gardener, cat servant
- Historical Geographers!! Do you have any news, cfps, conference sessions, papers, books or events you would like to alert others to in our next #HGRG spring newsletter? Get in touch with @hcraddock.bsky.social by 13 February and spread the word! #historicalgeography #RGS #news
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- Reposted by Christina HouriganThe research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories. Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo... #envhist #envhum
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- Reposted by Christina HouriganI'll be talking about the Hope Botanic Gardens in Jamaica on 27th Jan, using records from the colonial archives at Kew Gardens 🌴 Signup here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empires-pl...
- It was great to sign some copies of our new #book 'Among the Giants, a year in Kew's Arboretum' at #KewPublishing @rbgkew.bsky.social last week. It was such a joy to spend the seasons with Kew's Tree Gang and write about Kew's beautiful trees, arboriculture and climate resilience.
- Huge thanks to the team at @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social and @sarahwhpress.bsky.social for creating such stunning designs for our special #arborealhumanities issue! Check out all the beautifully crafted papers, poetry and reviews at whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
- Reposted by Christina HouriganVery happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue. www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
- Reposted by Christina HouriganIt's here!!! 200 pages of #research articles, #narrative #nonfiction, #poetry & #reviews - all on #trees! Many thanks to @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, @treeseeker.bsky.social & all our contributors url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9ZIoCojPZH...
- Coming this autumn!! #PLANT #PERSPECTIVES 2(2) special issue: #Tree #Cultures & #Arboreal #Humanities eds @treeseeker.bsky.social & Caroline Cornish #research articles, narrative #non_fiction, #poetry & reviews whp-journals.co.uk/PP @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
- Check out the new issue of #PlantPerspectives on the #arborealhumanities! Including my own first published paper 🎉 whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #envhum #envhist #history #historicalgeography #planthumanities #culturalgeography #RoyalHolloway #KewGardens #RGS #Archives #treebiographies
- Delighted to announce that our special issue of #PlantPerspectives @plantperspectives.bsky.social journal is NOW LIVE 🎊🎉🍾🥂 See: whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index Great range of papers, poetry, narrative non-fiction, and book reviews on the #arborealhumanities 🌳 Huge thanks to @planthums-uk.bsky.social
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- Fascinating talk by #author Sara Lodge on her #newbook about #Victorian #FemaleDetectives at #ChiswickBookFestival today! Can't wait to read it. #History #publishing #research #archives #yaleuniversitypress
- #Historicalgeography #HGRG #RGS #planthumanities #envhum #Geography #history #archives Call out for any events or news in the world of historical geography that you lovely people would like included in the next HGRG newsletter. Only a few days left before the autumn issue is published. Let me know!
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- Reposted by Christina HouriganWhat is the most beautiful flowering tree in the world? Find out in my essay for Plant Perspectives, ed. by the wonderful Caroline Cornish and Christina Hourigan. Also features a brilliant essay on ackee by Heather Craddock, @planthums-uk.bsky.social @treeseeker.bsky.social @hcraddock.bsky.social
- Happy #Publication Day to #AmongtheGiants, a year at the #Kew Arboretum. #OctopusBooks #KewPublishing #KewGardens #gardenhistory #trees #science #climateresilience #climatechange #urbantrees Available at all good book stores now!
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- Find out more about 'Among the Giants' here: www.waterstones.com/book/among-t...
- Discount klaxon! My new #book is 25%off preorder this week only at #Waterstones #WPreorder. Come with us and discover the fascinating work of #Kew's #TreeGang, the history of Kew's #Arboretum and #trees and how research is helping staff prepare the collection for #climatechange.
- Reposted by Christina HouriganComing this autumn!! #PLANT #PERSPECTIVES 2(2) special issue: #Tree #Cultures & #Arboreal #Humanities eds @treeseeker.bsky.social & Caroline Cornish #research articles, narrative #non_fiction, #poetry & reviews whp-journals.co.uk/PP @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
- Here's my lovely co-author Carolyn Fry on Instagram doing the REVEAL: www.instagram.com/reel/DMiF7ng...
- Hot off the press! 🥳 Advance copies of my new book written with Carolyn Fry have just arrived! Among the Giants, a year at the Kew Arboretum reveals season by season the amazing work of Kew's Tree Gang as they look after 11,000 trees & delves into the history of the arboretum. Pre-order now!! 💚
- On a similar theme of tree loss in a landscape, here's a beautiful piece from the wonderful #Arnoldia magazine... 'Its absence is not emptiness. It is a space now filled with memory, with gratitude...everything meaningful leaves a mark' - Maureen Danahy arboretum.harvard.edu/arnoldia-sto...
- An important read and vital question. How do we help people appreciate the #cultural and social value of #trees as well as their biological value? BBC News - The #SycamoreGap case has shed light on a deeper issue with trees - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- BBC News - Heatwaves leave London's trees under extreme stress www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Statue to "first British female landscape designer" placed in Wandsworth. BBC News - Statue of professional female gardener unveiled www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Really looking forward to #GardensandEmpires conference tomorrow at @britishlibrary.bsky.social with @rbgkew.bsky.social and @englishheritage.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social. Such a good programme of speakers!
- So excited to announce our conference on Gardens & Empires, with @englishheritage.bsky.social and the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 27-28 June 2025, in person/online. Fantastic global speakers and panellists. Do come! Tickets £15-£40 in person; £5-£15 online. events.bl.uk/events/garde...
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- I absolutely love this article from @plantperspectives.bsky.social about the web of memories and human connections with birch trees in the author's life. Beautiful. whitehorsepress.blog/2025/05/22/b...
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- A wonderful day for my first visit to The Yorkshire Arboretum. So many interesting trees related to Kew's collections. Loved their interpretation tagline 'Stories Trees Tell'!
- Interesting paper just highlighted in The Times on how Chinese temples were/are refuges for rare #trees. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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- Spent a lovely morning sharing tree tales from Kew's #Archives for the #UrbanTreeFestival in London. From paving the city's streets with sweet gum and jarrah wood to conserving our native black poplar. Kew's Archive is a rich seam of reports, maps, correspondence, scrap books and more 🌳🌲🌴💚
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- Come along to this next Monday @kewgardens Library and Archives for some intriguing tales about trees and beautiful illustrations on show. urbantreefestival.org/trees-in-kew...
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- Uganda's shea nut trees under threat as charcoal favoured instead of beauty creams - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- #NewBook Looking forward to delving into this... #trees #planthistory #culture #ecology #planthumanities
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- Fabulous evening at the Private View of the new Kew #exhibition The Power Of #Trees! Including 20 new works of art by the #Bedgebury Florilegium Society. Wonderful variety of pieces of #art across the different galleries. New book out for the exhibition including a history of Bedgebury by ME!!!
- Yes please!
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- Really recommend this new small exhibition in Kew's Library Reading Room exploring shifts in the practices of 18 and 19C botany and how indigenous knowledge was used and acknowledged #BotanicalRevolutions #Archives #Kew
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- Fantastic day at Bedgebury Pinetum today celebrating their Centenary with Tree planting, tours, lots of chatting about trees and William Dallimore, and CAKE! Huge thank you to all the team there for a brilliant day 👏 🌲💚 Here's to another 100 years of great conservation and educational work.
- Reposted by Christina HouriganPhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
- Reposted by Christina HouriganPost-doctoral fellowships available at Kew, closing 20 April. For proposals covering plant-people relationships, broadly defined, and using methods from the humanities, social sciences and life sciences see careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-... Informal enquiries: planthumanities@kew.org
- Gorgeous!
- Reposted by Christina HouriganAbsolute peach of a PhD!! #PLANTS & their PRODUCTS: #BIOCULTURAL #COLLECTIONS @rbgkew.bsky.social & #SOUTH_KENSINGTON #MUSEUM in LONG 19TH CENTURY Fully funded studentship. More: royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her... @mghg.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social @rhul-cvs.bsky.social #V&A #botany
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- So nice to pick up my copies of the all new edition of Treasured Trees. Full of stunning paintings by Masumi Yamanaka, tree histories by Martyn Rix and an introductory essay of the history of tree collecting and planting at Kew by ME! 😀 Huge thanks to Kew Publishing for breathing new life into it.
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- A fascinating evening at The #GardenMuseum last night at the 'launch' of the WA #Nesfield #Archive. Great to see the range of materials that will soon be available for #research on this great high #Victorian designer and #artist.
- Beautiful afternoon at the 'office'
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- Great first day of #Techne Congress at UAL College of Fashion in Stratford. Inspiring talks about making and living, spaces of creativity and learning, emotional archival encounters, and inspiring work on plants such as hemp and nettles too! Great lunch too! 😋 😁🤓💚
- Fabulous news and well deserved! 🥳 Very lucky to have Felix as my supervisor 👍
- A beautiful day to be heading through the #kew #arboretum to see some more fabulous #archive materials.
- Great day at the London Archives sharing stories from the Kew Archives around plants and trade and London ports in the Victorian era. I offered a quirky story of how some London streets were once paved with sweet gum timber (Liquidambar styriciflua) from N America.
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- Just watched a recording of the fantastic talk on Dr Lettsom's garden at Grove Hill by @drhick.bsky.social at the @linneansociety.bsky.social See: m.youtube.com/watch?v=xKtf... Recommended! Plus I learned a bit about 'Arbustrums'!
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- When you are trying (and failing) to finish your first journal article, sometimes you just have to go and spend time with a tree 😍 which wants nothing more of you than to admire how beautiful it is.
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- What a lovely afternoon at Syon House celebrating 30 years of the Thames Landscape Strategy and the beginning of a new era of plans. So fantastic to see Sir David Attenborough there and looking so well. What a legend.
