ADVOLLY RICHMOND'S SHORT HISTORY OF FLOWERS BOOK TALK

This event is in-person at the Museum in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential.

Tickets coming soon.

With Advolly Richmond, OBE, Historian/Presenter and Author.

Join Advolly to explore the historical uses of flowers, some of which will certainly come as a surprise. From the lavish and exotic bougainvillea, collected by an 18th century female botanist disguised as a sailor, to the short lived daylily that has fed and medicated populations in East Asia for centuries, to Christian Dior’s lucky charm, the lily of the valley.
 

Left: Blue Anemone illustration by Sarah Humphrey in Advolly Richmond's A Short History of Flowers, right

In her fully illustrated talk, Advolly will present stories from her new book, 'A Short History of Flowers: The stories that make our gardens', by looking at the enriching histories of plant exploration, heartbreak, curiosity, greed, ambitious hybridising and more.

The book and talk feature a variety of botanical illustrations from Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal Award winner, Sarah Humphrey.

Copies of the book will be on sale at the event. More information to follow.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Advolly Richmond, credit to Paul Richmond

Advolly Richmond is a Plant, Garden and Social Historian, Author and Gardener's World TV Presenter as well as a columnist for The Garden Collective.

She is an independent researcher in the history of plants, gardens and their importance in society. Based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, she is an ambassador for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, a Fellow of the Linnean Society and teaches Garden History at the Oxford Lifelong Learning at the Department for Continuing Education. 

Find out more about Advolly's work here.

BOOKING

This event takes place in-person at the Museum, and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential. 

TICKETS COMING SOON

If you have any questions, please email us at publicprogrammes@ashmus.ox.ac.uk