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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My article on Mohamed Haniff's role in Malayan ethnobotany and using herbarium specimen data to write history is now out in Archives of Natural History! Many thanks to my generous collaborators, readers, and editors. doi.org/10.3366/anh....

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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Call now open for Visiting Fellowships in our Natural History Humanities programme! Building long-term collaborations with early career researchers on Cambridge GLAM collections. @camunivmuseums.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology @maacambridge.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

In our latest blog post University of Cambridge researchers Katherine Enright and Liana Chua explore how colonial collecting reclassified Indigenous foods (such as tiger milk mushrooms and edible bird’s nests) and rituals as charms, specimens, and commodities: www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2025/11...

A mushroom with a long stem and slightly concave cap stands on a workbench in the museum's offsite store.

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology @maacambridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Within the collections cared for at MAA is a wooden figure of the langsuir - a Malay vampire. In our latest blog post University of Cambridge MPhil students Ashley Chin and Ryan Ko trace its ties to folklore and colonial collecting practices: www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2025/09...

A carved wooden figure of a woman wearing a dress. She has two long sections of hair hanging down her back, bare feet, and long fingernails.

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I'll be presenting online, this evening, at the kind invitation of the British Cave Research Association! My talk is on histories of speleology, guano harvesting, and archaeology in Malaysia. Details here: bcra.org.uk/seminars2025...

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British Cave Research Association - Online Seminars

Monday Mon 13-Oct 2025, 19:30 to 21:00 BST. Cave Exploration, Guano, and Prehistory in Malaya and Borneo

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Thrilled with this news! And what an honour to be part of the curatorial team behind this exhibition

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Had a truly wonderful time sharing about Mohamed Haniff (1872-1930) and his botanical collecting through herbarium sheets @ Forest Learning Centre, Perdana Botanic Gardens KL - huge thank you to the team there and to the Sunda Shelves bookstore!

Author is pointing at a slide featuring three herbarium sheets

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Guide to the now-defunct Natural History Gallery at the National Museum of Malaysia (Muzium Negara), 1979 -- from the personal collection of Abdul Nasir Halim (1938-1999), who made these amazing dioramas (Perpustakaan ATMA, UKM)

Cover page in yellow of Natural History Gallery: A Brief Guide

Black and white photographs of a mangrove swamp diorama and a tiger diorama

Black and white photographs of edible mangrove crab above and underwater coral diorama below

Black and white photographs of a pangolin diorama above and a diorama of primates of Malaysia below

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Excited to be part of this great line up of natural history talks and walks at the Forest Learning Centre, Perdana Botanic Gardens, KL later this month!

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Palm Practices, a collaboration between Jelai Asli Craft, a Semai weaving collective from Pahang, and Gerimis Art, Malaysia, on display at GMBB in KL. Pictured is my favourite pattern, with a delightful name: ekor tenggiling, or pangolin's tail

entrance to the palm practices exhibit with introductory text panel to the left

Introductory text about the Jelai Asli Craft weaving group

Pictures of 9 weaving patterns with their motifs and meanings

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Naturhistorisk Museum Aarhus: Amidst charismatic mammals and danish wildflowers, unassuming crustacean specimens offer a glimpse of Denmark's scientific endeavors in Southeast Asia: one from Penang, first Galathea Expedition, 1846 & a jar from Ban Kao, Thai-Danish Prehistoric Expedition, 1961.

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Some highlights from an absolutely fantastic ArtJog 2025, the annual art festival in Jogjakarta: first up, two prints from Agung Pramana's series 'Looting Back the Shadow Puppets' (2025) - the puppets escaping, video-game style, from the floor plan of the British Museum

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

These beautiful pressed seaweeds are the work of 19th-century botanist Amelia Griffiths. Sent to Dawson Turner, writer of 𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘪, around 1808, this volume is currently on display as part of our exhibition 𝘐𝘯 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵: 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦’𝘴 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘴.

Letter from Amelia Griffiths containing four specimens of seaweed pressed and pasted onto a sheet in a variety of shades of pink and maroon. Her scrawl contains descriptions of locations an characteristics of her findings.

Second leaf of a letter from Amelia Griffiths containing 3 sections of a seaweed specimen pressed and pasted onto a sheet alongside her writing.

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Had a wonderful time learning and sharing at the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia conference in Jogjakarta!

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Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

First post here! Happy to share my brilliant friend @tanvidg.bsky.social's reporting on funding for climate initiatives in the bay area

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