Thanks and Acknowledgements

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Before you go, don't forget to take the quiz to see if you have the skills to be John Hall's apothecary's assistant!  

Acknowledgements and Thanks

This beloved plant inspires strong devotion, resulting in impassioned debates on origins, species, hybridisation process, uses, classifications and ‘which breed comes from which’. There are numerous debates around identifying the roses to which Shakespeare was referring in his plays. For instance, some argue that rosa rubiginosa must have been the ‘musk rose’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream while others claim it must have been rosa arvensis.The organisers of this exhibition are not rhodologists, botanists or horticulturists. New Place’s gardens are cared for by expert gardeners, but we are academics who are of the firm belief that an education in roses is a fascinating journey, but that it can be tricky to find definitive answers.

 

The exhibition has been curated by Dr Aysu Dincer and Professor Teresa Grant from the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, with a lot of help from Paul Taylor and Lauren Jansen-Parkes at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. We would also like to thank our partners at Floris London (especially Roberta Ion and Anna Gilchrist) for their interest in the whole project and for supplying the wonderful perfumes.

 

For the invention and building of the olfactory device extra special thanks are owed to Professor James Covington (Warwick School of Engineering) and his team: carpentry - Iain Brown with help from Joel Whittle and Martin Millson; mechanical - Gary Lawton; CAD Design and pneumatics - Frank Courtney; electronics design - Jonathan Meadows, supported by Jacob Burgess and Ben Carr; Ian Griffith and Marco Reichwein; Amber Wang.

 

We are also indebted in various ways to Liz Barry, Paul Botley, Sophie Bourne, Pascal Brioist, Sian Cooper, Océane Fontaine Cioffi, Anna Gubis, Colette Kelly, Nichola Kelsey, Tim Lockley, Catherine Louch, Rachel Moseley, Rachael North, Emma Roberts, Jami Rogers, Charlotte Scott, Jayne Sweet, Mandeep Tutt. Thank you all.