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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As part of our wonderful Archives Revealed project, we’re super excited that our co-curated exhibition “Archives Revealed: Unlocking a colonial collection” is open! FREE to visit and open Tues-Thurs 10-4pm. I’m so very proud of this project and all the fantastic people who’ve worked on it with us.

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fab few days at the #RBSCG conference. Inspiring talks, amazing (OLD) manuscripts and lovely colleagues! Was a bit worried about being an imposter, but would highly recommend to archivists. It took place in the room where I did my finals, and even that didn't put me off! @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social

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Fiona Ainsworth @fionaainsworth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Our fantastic Assistant Archivist Isabel has been nominated for the ‘New Professional of the Year Award’ in the Archives & Records Association (ARA) Excellence Awards. You can see Isabel’s nomination here and vote for her by 5pm on 16 July www.archives.org.uk/ara-awards

A composite image of archive material which shows some typed text on the left overlaid with a watercolour illustration of a yellow flowered plant and two black and white photographs of landscapes. On the right is an illustration of two yellow fruits and the drawing has been given a purple archives stamp. In the background on the right a file can just be seen with the word 'Ministry' printed across the top.

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We’ve nominated our fabulous assistant archivist, @islauter.bsky.social for ARA New Professional of the Year! She very much deserves this, so please do vote for her. Below are some pics from the wonderful Persia Reimagined workshops she ran: www.archives.org.uk/new-professi...

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Some treasures from our collections… happy international archives day 🥳

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Fiona Ainsworth @fionaainsworth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

🚨VACANCY: The Archives team is hiring a new Graduate Trainee for a 2-year role. They will be working in the Archives and Records Management team, gaining valuable experience pre-qualification. Deadline: 17 May 2026 Start date: 1 Sep 2026 Salary: £29,692 pa careers.kew.org/vacancy/arch... #KewLA

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The Archives and Records Management team forms part of the Library and Archives department. Archive staff manage Kew’s historic record of activities, as well as collections and other documents relatin...

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

FREE creative workshops in Kew Gardens Archives, for participants of Asian, African and Caribbean heritage. Explore records about fruit, forestry and plant collection - plus the chance to co-curate an exhibition! Apply by 12/4/26 here forms.office.com/e/mdVXh3icAZ #archives #PublicEngagement

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

📣📣📣 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT We’re looking for a full time, permanent records manager at Kew Gardens! Come join our lovely Archives and Records Management team, in this varied role, with the possibility of hybrid working careers.kew.org/vacancy/reco... #RecordsManagement #Vacancies #Hybrid

Images of paper files in a records store

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Follow Fiona to see more lovely images from our collections at Kew Gardens and learn more about our work 🌸🌳🍄📚

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A fabulous couple of days @theul.bsky.social and @cuherb.bsky.social, with lots of archives and blossoms - two of my favourite things!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

And then a much more refined trip to see the fabulous Love Letters exhibition @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

We still have places on these art workshops! Open to all, free and no artistic experience/skill needed!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Cosy! All in one room, but at least it’s double air beds and Christmas bedding right?! #DuvetKnowItsChristmas. Don’t forget to donate to www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

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Shabnam Balouch @shabnambalouch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🎨 Art Workshops at Kew 📚 Second round of creative art workshops inspired by Persia Reimagined: From Herbarium to Heritage 📅 15 January 2026 🕙 10:45 or 13:45 (90 minutes) 📍 Library & Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Morning 10:45 : lnkd.in/ek2GZtQn Afternoon 13:45 : lnkd.in/eHZPTqbj

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

📣📣 FREE talk and workshops relating to our Persia Reimagined exhibition

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

So proud of this project, which has had so many lovely outcomes! And an absolute pleasure to work with the lovely @shabnambalouch.bsky.social 🎨🌺🇮🇷

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Happy #EYAInclusion Day! We believe archives are for everyone, and we recently hosted workshops with Persian communities who visited our current exhibition & created beautiful booklets inspired by the items on display! It's vital that anyone who wants to use archives is able to access them. #KewLA

Photograph over the shoulder of a woman with long dark hair, sitting at a table drawing. In front of her on the table are papers of different sizes and drawing materials, such as coloured pencils.

A dark wooden table with fixed lamps. Across the table, papers of different sizes are strewn, showing photographs of pomegranates, exhibition flyers for 'Persia Reimagined', copies of archive materials, drawing mats and coloured pencils, as well as patterned shawls. Two people's hands can be seen at the top of the picture, in the middle of drawing.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

For #EYADigital, we’re looking back at how Kew managed its corporate records - from filing paper documents to reviewing which should be archived or securely destroyed. While some paper files remain, we now support staff in managing records effectively in a primarily digital environment. #KewLA

Numerous paper registered files stored vertically on five horizontal white shelves.

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Did you know botanist Sir Joseph Hooker travelled with two Bhotea mastiff dogs? Today’s featured image for #ExploreYourArchive Week #EYAPets is a playful drawing from his letters, showing Kinchin the dog being ‘taught’ to write.

A letter which at the top includes a drawing in ink and the number ‘151’ printed and written in the top left corner. The drawing depicts from left to right: a pot cooking with steam rising from it; a Bhotea mastiff dog writing a note using a quill; a tent with a person sat at a table inside. There are mountains drawn in the background. Underneath, the letter notes that it was sent from Darjeeling on April 2. The contents of the letter discuss Joseph Hooker’s Bhotea mastiffs – Bruno and puppy Kinchin. It mentions that Kinchin is cleaned daily with mustard oil and woods ashes, he steals cheese from Joseph Hooker’s dinner and that Kinchin learnt English was being taught how to write. Ref: JDH/1/10, ff.151

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

For #EYASilence, we thought it fitting to look back at a time in which the Gardens had to be silent. This instruction sheet, issued during the Blitz in WWII, and an air raid logbook detail how the frequency of bombing raids led to the regular suppression of daily operations. #KewLA

Two typewritten documents, situated in the centre and left-hand side, layered on top of a handwritten logbook, situated on the right-hand side.

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The oldest item in our archives! Although we do have older books in our library collections…

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Elsie Wakefield - showing women could also do science jobs back in 1915 👑🍄

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Ahh were you in today? Sorry to miss you too!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

A very enjoyable Places, Plants and People Archive Network meeting @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, including the chance to see some archives! Also enjoying the Christmas lights on the bus ride back to station…

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Exploring belonging and connection, through making with @jacquir711.bsky.social at the fabulous #CreativeConnections symposium

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This was a great afternoon, welcoming 60 super engaged students from @unisouthampton.bsky.social to our collections!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A fabulous visit to @middletemple.bsky.social archives yesterday, for our Places, Plants and People Archive Network. A real treat to see the hall, gardens and archives!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A fabulous drink on Isola Bella!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I do love this photo! Happy friendship day!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Particularly enjoyed hearing about Layers of London with @justincolson.bsky.social, where GIS has been used to amplify diverse voices and put them on the map!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A super interesting workshop @rgsibg.bsky.social today, exploring GIS and archives. And a tour of the collection, which was a real treat! Just need to magic up some time to see what we can do with our archives and GIS ✨

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Happy International Archives Day!

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we look back in our Library & Archives collections at the work of Kew during the Second World War. This press release from 1943, shows how the Garden’s spaces changed their use, including the introduction of demonstration plots. #KewLA #VE80

Black and white photograph showing people viewing a vegetable plot. Caption below image reading ‘Demonstration plot, 1940-45 at Kew’. ©RBG Kew

A close-up of a black and white type script press release. Kew Archives – 1/Adm/41

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

FREE behind the scenes tours! Come and find out more about our records relating to trees, through an exciting collaboration with @urbantreefest.bsky.social 🌲 🌳🪾

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Some super exciting news for our #archives, brought about by a collaboration led by @theul.bsky.social (am trying not to cringe at the reel)

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Exploring Northumberland and some rather excellent cup and ring marks. Anyone know what these signified? I’ve guessed ritual, the kids think they were part of children’s games and A thinks waymarks 🤔

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Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Delighted to see the new exhibition as part of the project 'Natural History in the Age of Revolutions' in the Library and Archives at @rbgkew.bsky.social ! Thank you to all those who made this happen, especially my Co-I Staffan Müller-Wille and Fiona Ainsworth. Free and open 1 April-19th June

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This looks great! How long is the exhibition on for please? I’d love to pop up and see it!

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The Palm House looking fabulous in yesterday’s sunshine!

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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🥁 Drum rolls needed! Applications for the Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellowships are now OPEN! We are so excited to offer this incredible opportunity! Please, help us share the news! 2 online sandpits to meet #GLAM people @uniofcam.bsky.social Info 👇 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Researchers discussing Natural History Humanities materials at the Cambridge University Library

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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Post-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

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We are seeking applications from promising early-career scientists with interesting, innovative, and viable research ideas for the Kew Research Fellowship in Plant and Fungal Science. The Kew Research...

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Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A PhD opportunity that will involve using the archives of where I now work, and where I used to work - a real archival treat 📚

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