Medicinal and mindful: Liverpool’s botanical history
Run time: 12.00 – 13.00
Travel back to the 1800s, in this workshop you’ll discover how Victorian’s identified and documented medicinal plants.
After exploring illustrated plant drawings and herbal artefacts, you’ll create your own Victorian powders from medicinal plants.
Wild plants often go unnoticed and unappreciated today. This workshop is part of a series of events that will encourage you to think about the species growing around you, what you might learn from them and the importance of protecting and preserving plants against the effects of climate change.
The workshops will be hosted by Mindful Garden; a collaboration between researchers across Liverpool John Moores University. The Mindful Garden explores the medicinal properties of plants, digs into pharmaceutical drug discovery, and unearths the legacy of William Roscoe’s botanical collection.
Please note that the venue for this event is not wheelchair accessible.
This event involves plants that are safe to handle but may not be suitable to those with any plant allergies.
The activity may be messy and could stain clothes – disposal aprons will be provided.
Other workshops in this series:
For access information and directions to this venue, and all British Science Festival venues, please click this link https://britishsciencefestival.org/british-science-festival-2025-venues
