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Selling Steel: The artistic oddities of the GKN archive
My name is Lewis Edwards, and in 2025, as part of my MA course at the University of Birmingham, I undertook a placement at Winterbourne with a focus on the GKN archive. One object sparked off some fascinating research! On the first floor of Winterbourne House, a spacious room houses the Guest, Keen and Nettlefold…
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Bee-friendly gardening
As we celebrate all things ‘bee’ at Winterbourne this summer here are some fun facts and how to help the bees in your garden. Did you know? Bees in danger… Climate change is putting bees at risk. 25% of species have disappeared in recent decades and 65% face potential loss of their geographical habitats as…
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Head Gardener’s Question Time
Got a camellia conundrum? Or wondering which vegetables are best to grow? Not sure how to get rid of that pesky bindweed infestation? Step this way! Following our visit from BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time panel, our own Head Gardener Paul Cook has agreed to answer your gardening questions in this new regular feature.…
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Botanical prints on display for summer
A few months ago, we featured images of Spring flowers from our botanical prints collection. Now that summer is upon us, there is a new selection of botanical illustrations by James Sowerby in the Herbarium exhibition, curated by archives volunteer Claire Young. All these summer flowers are also represented in our Herbarium collection, so we’ve…
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Recipe: Summer Pudding
Summer pudding is a wonderful celebration of the fruits growing in abundance around the UK at this time of year. Popular during the late 19th to early 20th centuries, it can be made with almost any mixture of seasonal berries growing in your garden or allotment. So, if you’ve got an abundance of redcurrants, blackberries,…