Antonin Baudry's imaginative adaptation of my biography of de Gaulle, ‘A Certain Idea of France’, raises questions about which liberties film-makers may take when depicting the past.

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Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.

BBS SE Group Field Meeting, 16 May 2026 Nestling up near the Surrey border, the tetrad TQ03W is in a notably under-recorded part of West Sussex, and we have been attempting to fill the gap to some …

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Coconut frontiers and ecological frictions in the Pacific World, c.1900–20: A multispecies history of capitalism

One​ morning in October 1552, Felix Platter left his hometown of Basel for Montpellier, where he was to study medicine...

Worksheet on Arisaema triphyllum from Carroll Dodge’s herbarium. Harvard Botany Libraries I traveled to New England twice this spring, and on each trip, I spent two days at Harvard University…

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

CCC ECR Network Reimagining Collections Workshop: Fossils Unearthed Dr Katharine Arnold, Dr Elizabeth Hoiem, Dr Conall Treen, Natural History Humanities Visiting Fellows, 2025-2026 During the first we...

Still hot and sunny between heatwaves, the shade of trees and a high wall in the parking area by The Holy Sepulchre Church in Warminghurst was welcome. I recorded Metzgeria furcata, Rhynchostegiell…

This following italicised sections were written by Matt Phelps, who first heard this unusual cricket...  I strolled over to Sussex Wildlif...

Insect wings are fantastically sensitive, feeling the wind, touch and even tasting. Now researchers from Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, reveal in Journal of Experimental Biology t...

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

This introduction discusses the challenges plant life has represented in the history and philosophy of science, and outlines the topics dealt with by the contributors. Understanding plant life, behavi...