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Keats the Rev Dr Footnote. (William Turton). (Jun 2026.)

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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