Plants have a history too…

Marty Wingate's article 'Shedding light on plant history' seems unrelated to European history at first, but when you consider the issues he begins to raise – how plants have developed alongside humanity and how we have affected their locations and characteristics – you begin to see a hidden side of history. Admittedly, people generally treat debates about mankind's interaction with the environment like they would a mad cousin at a wedding, but I felt this article was a good way of 'dipping your toe in the water'.