About Me & My Publications
I am a lecturer and researcher at The University of Winchester, UK
In 2022 I led a UKRI-funded international collaborative project that unearthed the hidden history of the St. Vincent Botanical Garden, and my ongoing relationship with the garden had led to this guidebook project.
Historical Information on the Garden
My work on the garden is on-going but linked below are various publications you can access; please take a look
This blog provides an overview of the Unearthing project
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This webinar was recorded by the National Parks, Rivers and Beaches Authority of St Vincent and the Grenadines, at the launch of the pop-up exhibition about the St. Vincent Botanical Garden developed as part of the Unearthing project.
The talk provides an overview of the project (1.38.47 mins).
This webinar for the Linnean Society of London, discusses an illustration by John Tyley, a mixed-race botanical artists employed by Alexander Anderson at the garden in the late 1700s.
The painting shows an enslaved man at rest under a Breadfruit Tree and is held in the Linnean's Anderson archive (6.33 mins).
This is a blog written for the Linnean Society of London about Maria and her children; an enslaved African woman and her children called Francis, Chance, and Liverpool, who assisted Alexander Anderson's wife, Elizabeth:
Elizabeth was hearing impaired
Here you can access the draft of a published journal article that contains a transcription of Alexander Anderson's Natural History of Barbados; it has a commentary and a biography of Anderson. The original manuscript is part of the Linnean's Anderson archive.
It was co-written with Prof Niall Finneran
This is a draft of a short chapter for the edited book Plants Beyond Borders (2025). It provides an overview of the St. Vincent Botanical Garden highlighting the horticultural knowledge of Indigenous and Enslaved Africans, and the importance of enslaved laborers to the garden, including a man named Mazaran