Spice Stories: The Botanical and Cultural World of Gingers

10.15 - Welcome by Dr Kate Walchester, Director of Research Institute of Literature and Cultural History, LJMU and Steve Lyus, Chair of the Liverpool Botanic Trust 10.30-11.30 – Axel Dalberg Poulson, Zingiberales Taxonomist, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: ‘The Diversity of Gingers of the World’ 11.30-12.00 – Tea break. 12.00-1.00 – Steve Lyus, Chair of the Liverpool Botanical Trust: ‘“Roscoe’s Baby”, The first Monograph for the Gingers’; Donna Young, Curator of Herbarium, World Museum, Liverpool: ‘The Liverpool Herbarium and its Gingers.’ 1.00-2.00 – Lunch and exhibition, featuring contributions by botanical artist Sue McHugh, LJMU graduate Anna John and Athena Nursery 2.00-3.00 – Richard Baines, Curator at Logan Botanic Garden: ‘Growing Gingers in Great Britain.’ 3.10-3.40 – Rebecca Bailey, Senior Lecturer in English Literature: “What's ginger, I pray ye?”: an exploration of ginger in early modern England'. 3.40-4.00 – Conclusion, tea, and evaluation.