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​Recent Highlights
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The Apothecary of the Revelations, or The Devil with Too Many Tales (sic.)
(Wordsworth Trust blog, January 2025)

The Eve of St Agnes - Practising Poetry and Pharmacy
(Wordsworth Trust blog, November 2022)

Isabella after Keats - a potted history
(Wordsworth Trust blog, January 2022)

Ode to Melancholy - Keats through the looking glass
(Wordsworth Trust blog, July 2021)

Sensation & Watchfulness - Keats & Nature
(Wordsworth Trust blog, July 2020)
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Keatswatch - Nightingale ode & the culture of natural history
(Wordsworth Trust blog, November 2019)

Nice Ink, Keats. The medical student & his botanical/literary doodle. 
(Wordsworth Trust blog, January 2019)

Spring Shoots & Garden Peas. The Wordsworths & their kitchen garden.
(Wordsworth Trust blog, May 2018)



​The Complete Archive

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The Lancet:



Keats-Shelley Review:


Pharmaceutical Historian:
‘Nothing but Flowers’ John Keats. 
The Lancet. Vol. 78. No. 9802 pp.1541-1542 2011. (co-authored) 

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‘Poison Flowers; John Keats and the Botanic Pharmacy’. 
Keats-Shelley Review No. 16 2002. 

‘A Songze Jar’, letter in Pharmaceutical Historian Vol. 39 No.3 Sept 2008
‘Curious Herbal; Curious Tale’. (Elizabeth Blackwell)  
Chelsea Physic Garden Newsletter 2005.
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The Eve of St Agnes - Practising Poetry and Pharmacy
The Wordsworth Trust blog, November 2022

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Isabella after Keats - a potted history
(Wordsworth Trust blog, January 2022)
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​Ode to Melancholy - Keats through the looking glass
(Wordsworth Trust blog, July 2021)

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​Sensation & Watchfulness - Keats & Nature
The Wordsworth Trust blog, (July 2020)
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​Keatswatch - The Nightingale Ode & the Culture of Natural History 
The Wordsworth Trust blog, (November 2019)

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Nice Ink Keats; a botanical, literary doodle. 
The Wordsworth Trust blog, (January 1819)

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Spring Shoots & Green Peas -
the Wordsworths & their kitchen garden.

​A Tale of Beatrix Potter's War. 'Herbs', the journal of the Herb Society, 41:4 (December 2016)
'The Simpling Life, the vanished herbgatherer' Herbs 41.3 (Sept. 2016)
'Rock Samphire: Stranger on the Shore.' Herbs 41.1 (Mar 2016)
'For the want of Rhubarb.' Herbs 40.4 (Dec 2015)
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'Bah Humbug, a 19th century cough drop seller', Herbs 40.3 2015
'The Liquidambar Kaleidoscope', (sweet gum) Herbs, 40.1 2015
'The Obliging Manna Ash', (Fraxinus ornus), Herbs, 39.3 2014
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'That Confounded Winter's Bark' (Drimys winteri) Herbs, 39.2, 2014
'Weeds and Wild Flowers, Caroline Lucas' Herbs 39.1, 2014.
'Put in a large spider, a Caernarvon pharmacist's herbal notebook' Herbs 38.4, 2013. 
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'The knowing of herbs; poet and scholar George Herbert', Herbs 38.3, 2013. 
'Meadowsweet - history in a pudding bowl' Herbs 37.3 2012. 
‘Sacks ~ the City’ Nuremberg Herbs 36:4 2011.
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‘The Importance of being Wormwood’ Herbs 36:4 2011.
‘Health & Fortune; Chinese folk medicine & Robert Fortune’ Herbs 33:2 2008.
‘West Side Story; ethnobotany in British Columbia’ Herbs 32:2 2007.
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‘Reading Classics’ John Sibthorp & Greece Herbs 31:2 2006.   
‘Medicines in May’ the inaugural NBGW medicinal festival Herbs 30:3 2005.
‘The Time Machine’ the Apothecary’s Hall at NBGW Herbs 29:3 2004.
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‘Läckö Slott; at the round earth’s imagin’d corner’ Herbs 28:4 2003.
‘Faded Glory in Spain’ an herboristeria in Barcelona Herbs 28:1 2003.
‘Linneaus in the Fields’ Herbs 25:4 2000.
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‘John Bartram of Philadelphia’ Herbs 24:3 1999.
‘John Keats, Poet & Herbalist’ Herbs 23:2 1998.
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