In bloom: how plants changed our world

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The Tradescants and their circle / David A. Berry -- In focus: The 'Tradescants' Orchard', MS Ashmole 1461 / Mike Webb -- Networks of exchange: The Oxford physic garden / Stephen Harris -- In focus: Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort / India Cole -- Botany and books / Stephen Harris -- In focus: Making the Flora Graeca / Stephen Harris -- Art and botany / Martyn Rix -- In focus: The Bauer Brothers / Stephen Harris -- In focus: 'Brillant in the extreme': The botanical drawings of Sarah Anne Drake / Lynn Parker -- The business of plants / Stephen Harris -- In focus: Tulips: Bulbs and blooms between Asia and Europe / Francesca Leoni -- Botany and empire / Vinita Damodaran -- In focus: Seven eminent botanists / Matthew Winterbottom -- Creative visions and alternative futures / Francesca Leoni -- In focus: Oxford's changemakers / Fran Monks.