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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">Botany, Trade and Empire: Exploring Kew’s Miscellaneous Reports Collection</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">Kew’s Miscellaneous Reports Collection is a major resource relating to colonial and global networks of economic botany and scientific activity between 1850-1928.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">The Collection contains 772 volumes of unique archival and rare printed material which provides evidence of the plants and plant products, botanists, commercial
interests, and gardeners, moving across an expanding web of botanic gardens and agricultural and forestry stations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">It holds huge potential for both historical and scientific research, including imperial history, the use of plants by indigenous communities, medicine, nutrition
and health, the environment, as well as anthropology, ethnography, and agricultural history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">It is also a crucial source of evidence for critically examining and confronting Kew’s own history and colonial role.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">In this three-day online conference, discover the Miscellaneous Reports through talks by researchers who have used this archive, including keynote talks given
by Professor Richard Drayton (KCL) and Professor Vinita Damodaran (Sussex).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">Discover the central themes of botany, trade and empire, and explore the collection’s challenges, from revealing the unheard voices of the past, to realising
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">Programme: <a href="https://www.kew.org/science/engage/get-involved/conferences/botany-trade-empire/programme" target="_blank" title="https://www.kew.org/science/engage/get-involved/conferences/botany-trade-empire/programme">https://www.kew.org/science/engage/get-involved/conferences/botany-trade-empire/programme</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black">Register: <a href="https://www.kew.org/science/engage/get-involved/conferences/botany-trade-empire/register" target="_blank">https://www.kew.org/science/engage/get-involved/conferences/botany-trade-empire/register</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Queries:
<a href="mailto:miscreports@kew.org">miscreports@kew.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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