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Bringing Kew's Archive Alive

by: The Trading Consequences Team, Library, Art and Archives blog
02 May 2013
In this guest blog from the Trading Consequences team, find out how digital data produced by Kew's Directors' Correspondence team is being brought to life and can be used to visualise the British Empire's 19th Century trade networks

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Photo: Transporting seedlings in buckets for community planting in Malawi

Kew is taking part in the 'Big Give Christmas Challenge'

09 Nov 2012

This year, Kew is taking part in the 'Big Give Christmas Challenge', a campaign to encourage philanthropic giving by matching a donors’ gift. Effectively your donation to the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership could be doubled! We need to raise £50,000 for next year’s seed collecting trips, as well as expanding our work on using existing collections. Please note: This campaign ran from 6 to 19 December 2012 and has now finished.

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Join Kew experts on an expedition to Central America

10 Nov 2011

Discover the remotest corners of Central America and the Caribbean with Kew scientists on a small expedition ship. An amazing discovery and adventure opportunity for members and Friends of Kew.

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Kew supporters celebrate the publication of 'The last great plant hunt - the story of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank'

10 Jun 2011

Kew's newest book title was given a great launch with authors, supporters of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank and staff attending a celebratory party in the Nash Conservatory, to welcome the book's publication.

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Kew Fund: Chocolate, Rainforests and Conservation

12 Apr 2011

Cacao (Theobroma cacao), the plant that gives us chocolate, is just one of many rainforest plant species which are grown and used by people. Find out how Kew's work is helping to protect this species in South America.

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Kew needs your support

22 Oct 2010

Kew Fund offers a new way for individuals to support Kew's work on an ongoing basis. You can choose to support different areas of our work or where the need is the greatest.

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Colombian curiosities in the Directors' Correspondence at Kew

by: Virginia Mills, Library, Art and Archives blog
01 Feb 2010
Read about Robert Blake White's travels in Colombia, the ancient artefacts he collected and the ideas he picked up about gardening in synchronisation with the phases of the moon.