This piece identifies the tree that Davy refers to in his poem 'Thoughts after the ingratitude of the Northumbrians with respect
to the Safety lamp' as the Doona tree in Sri Lanka. The tree is now, very sadly, on the verge of extinction: island.lk/ceylon-tree-he…

The first article of our special issue on Humphry Davy's Notebooks has been published in the Notes and Records of the Royal Society: royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/RSZVT9A…

A disappointing note for Martha Allen (1740-1815). All I can find out about her is the men she was related to: 'Arthur Young's wife and Charles Burney's sister-in-law; the great-grand-daughter of John Allen, of Lyng House in the county of Norfolk.' Is there anything else?

The 1000th person has just been entered into our Davy Notebooks Project person spreadsheet! It's John Whitehurst: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whit…

It's about time: Kate Singer and I are happy to announce at last the publication of:

_Percy Shelley for Our Times_ Cambridge University Press

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We still have places available on our Davy Notebooks event at Lancaster Library on 21 March 12-2pm. Book your free ticket here: tinyurl.com/4rdmt4sz.

Help us to research the people, places and chemical terms in Davy's notebooks and learn about the poetry we’ve discovered!

Nice to see a piece about our upcoming Davy Notebooks library events featured in the Lancaster Guardian last week: shorturl.at/oxEQV!

We're excited to be kicking off our series of library workshops on 21 March 12-2pm at Lancaster Library. Come and get ‘hands-on’ with a Lancaster University project, which shines a light on the work of Sir Humphry Davy. Further details here:
shorturl.at/bwFKZ

We’re running our first library event, at Lancaster Library on Thursday 21 March, 12-2pm. Come and help us to annotate pages of Davy’s lab notebooks and learn from Prof Sharon Ruston about the poetry we’ve discovered in his notebooks. It’s free to book here: tinyurl.com/4rdmt4sz.

‘The object of poetry, whatever may be said by poets, is more to amuse than instruct; the object of science more to instruct than amuse.’ Davy, Collected Works, i, 147.
Our new exhibition, open until 23 March, celebrates the work of scientist & poet Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829).

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Poets attending science lectures to enlarge their 'stock of metaphors'--not wrong.

Places still available for the BARS/Wordsworth Trust webinar on Thursday 25th January, 7.30-9pm:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/romanticism-…

Davy's writings are still a joy to read today.

The Davy Notebooks Project exhibition has opened Wordsworth Grasmere and will be there till 23rd March. It looks lovely.

We have a new blog post out: Alexis Wolf and Sara Cole discuss women's literary contributions to the pages of Davy's notebooks: wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/…

A wonderful time was had by all at the Davy poetry workshop organised by Northumberland Archives and Northumberland Libraries on Friday. Thanks to Greg Freeman for this write up on the Write Out Loud website:
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Chemistry, poetry, and laughing gas

A wonderful time was had by all at the Davy poetry workshop organised by Morpeth Library on Friday. Thanks to Greg Freeman for this write up on the Write Out Loud website: writeoutloud.net/public/blogent…