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SUMMARY:Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and ar
 chiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Emily Hu
 ghes and Sophia Kamps (Kew Gardens)
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DESCRIPTION:*Emily Hughes (UCL & Kew Gardens)*\n\nDespite vast research of
  the connection between Royal Botanic Gardens\, Kew\, and the British Empi
 re\, little attention has been turned towards the records kept of it. This
  paper links the fields of history of science and archival studies to intr
 oduce a new perspective: the necessity of considering organisational admin
 istrators such as recordkeepers as agents of power and knowledge productio
 n within the field of botanic history (Stoler 2002). Asserting natural kno
 wledge as a tool and instrument of colonial control\, the paper considers 
 how the circulation of information and knowledge around the empire was dep
 endent on bureaucratic efficiency and recordkeeping at Kew. It takes a mat
 erial culture approach\, assessing how the physical binding and organisati
 on of records can reveal changing colonial priorities through the 19th cen
 tury\, how administrators viewed and categorised natural resources and the
  world\, and how this impacts how archive-users interact with records at K
 ew today.\n\n*Sophia Kamps (Royal Holloway\, University of London & Kew Ga
 rdens)*\n\nLovell Reeve was the leading natural history publisher of the m
 id-Victorian era\, responsible for periodicals such as _Curtis's Botanical
  Magazine_\, publications for popular audiences\, and specialist works of 
 enduring significance. Lovell Reeve's publications are the result of a com
 plex system of labour and market dynamics\, with the publisher working to 
 bring together illustrators\, writers\, and printers and produce volumes f
 or both specialists and lay audiences. This paper brings together an analy
 sis of the economics of publishing natural history based on the Lovell Ree
 ve papers at RBG\, Kew\, with a material culture focus on book production\
 , from the creation of elaborate hand-coloured lithographs to the innovati
 ve trade cloth bindings used for Reeve's Popular Natural History series. T
 hrough an emphasis on production process and materiality\, this paper expl
 ores the tension between the book as a commodity\, a scientific tool\, and
  a work of art.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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