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History of Bees in 24 Tweets 2023 Part 2
Last year for #WorldBeeDay I launched 24 tweets (one per hour). I did the same for the sixth World Bee Day this 20 May 2023 and in the same way as last…
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The question of Honey adulteration in nineteenth-century Britain and America
In May 2023 I gave an online talk about honey adulteration and faked honey in the 19th century to the Institute of Historical Research’s Food History…
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History of Bees in 24 Tweets 2023 Part 1
Last year for #WorldBeeDay I launched 24 tweets (one per hour). I did the same for the sixth World Bee Day this 20 May 2023 and in the same way as last…
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The bees of Beorn in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional Middle Earth
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In Praise of the Bee
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The Profit of Bees and Honey, 1568-1657
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The Drone Bee Part 1
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John Fitzherbert – The Book of Husbandry (1523)
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Finding colonies of honeybees in the woods
Paul Dudley (18th century) and Columella’s (1st century) methods for hunting for swarms
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Do Bees know their owner? A nineteenth-century debate
Around 1867, Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (or W. Busch for short) decided to investigate a question about honeybees that touched on traditions and…
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Thomas Hill - Chapter 1 part 3 – the seasons
Part 04 in a semi-regular series of essays examining the 1568, A Profitable Instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees, written by Thomas Hill.
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Thomas Hill - Chapter 1 part 2 - What harms a honeybee and what about their stings?
Part 03 in a semi-regular series of essays examining the 1568, A Profitable Instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees, written by Thomas Hill.
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Thomas Hill - Chapter 1 Part 1 - Bee Anatomy
Part 02 in a semi-regular series of essays examining the 1568, A Profitable Instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees, written by Thomas Hill.
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The Megachile Pluto #WorldBeeDay 20 May 2023
#WorldBeeDay is on Saturday 20 May 2023 this year. To celebrate I decided to momentarily move away from a focus on honeybees and to take a look at a…
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The Pure Food Law Revisited
On 11 May 2023, 5.30 pm (UK time) I will be giving an online talk about the adulteration of honey in nineteenth-century Britain and America. The talk is…
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