Laura Brassington

Name:	Laura Brassington
Affiliation:	HPS, Cambridge
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	Mon Oct 11 15:20:58 +0000 2021

Public lists managed by Laura Brassington

Talks given by Laura Brassington

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• Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

Talks organised by Laura Brassington

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• Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England
• Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867)
• When is a cow not a cow?
• The politics of the potato in the 19th century
• Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice
• The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections
• Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK
• Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century
• Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe
• Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire
• Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies
• Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums
• Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle
• Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872
• Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century
• The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century
• Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685
• Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency
• The long-lost Paston Collection