Medical-botanical & historical expertise

I am known as the Hamnet Herbalist and offer consultancy for food / medicine development, projects, films, writers and researchers on the following subjects:

• Hisotry of herbal medicine

• Coca (Erythroxylum spp.) and cocaine

• Cinchona, quinine and malaria

• The history of the Gin & Tonic

• Medicinal botany / botanical medicine

Using experience gained in practical remedy-making and research across a wide range of historical contexts, I can provide:

• Botanical plant materials

• Fact sheets

• Historical remedies & props for film-makers, prop makers & suppliers.

Film & TV Consultancy

I consult on films that require consultancy, advice and prop supply of botanically and historically accurate plants and plant medicines.

I have worked on: Hamnet (2026); The Favourite (2019) and more…

TV Appearances

BBC Country file ‘Spring Special’ 28 April 2019 and June 2023 subject: foraging and herbal medicine

ARTE TV ‘Invitation au Voyage’ due September 2019, subject: the history of gin and tonic