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December 2018
Dr David Jacques, Garden Historian and Conservationist, will consider how writers have reinvented the Elizabethan garden........ We don’t really know what Elizabethan gardens were like; we have almost no images, and poets were general and metaphorical. That, however, has not stopped historians, architects and even garden historians imagining their design, decoration and detail. The very absence [...]
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William Morris was a key figure in the development of domestic garden design, helping to popularise the Arts and Crafts garden among the artistic middle class in England and the US. His gardens at Red House and then Kelmscott Manor supplied endless inspiration to Morris, his family and friends.The Enchanted Garden explores how Morris's contemporaries and subsequent generations of [...]
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This course offers an overview of garden history from the Egyptians to the present day. The sessions will comprise a lively mix of illustrated lectures, hands-on activities using primary source materials and opportunities for discussion, as well as advice on further reading and how to approach personal research projects. Archive materials and illustrative examples from Highbury [...]
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Dr Anna Keay, formerly Curatorial Director at English Heritage, now Director of the Landmark Trust Anna will discuss the remarkable garden created at Kenilworth Castle in the 1570s by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Perhaps the best recorded Elizabethan privy garden, it was at the heart of Elizabeth I’s long visit to the castle in 1575, and the [...]
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Professor Simon Hiscock, Director of the Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum will reflect on the garden’s history and plans for the future.
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EMMA TENNANT: A BOTANICAL TOUR OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM THE SCILLIES TO SUTHERLAND Emma Tennant’s botanical watercolours will be shown in a selling exhibition at the Garden Museum from 6 March – 28 April 2019. Tennant says, “I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been [...]
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Dr Sally Jeffery, Architectural and Garden Historian will discuss her recent research on Hawksmoor’s designs. A visit to Castle Howard will follow on 11th July 2019.
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WGT member Christine Hodgetts will talk to the Warwick Society on Warwickshire gardens in the C16-17.
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Conference: Trees & Townscape - Past, Present & Future. Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th March 2019 Weekend conference at St John's College, Oxford, organised by the OGT. The programme will comprise a day of presentations on Saturday 16th March looking at the value of trees from a variety of perspectives. On Sunday 17th March there will [...]
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Dr Barbara Simms, Institute of Historical Research, University of London will discuss the gardens and landscapes designed by Brookes over 50 years. ... John Brookes is most often associated with the ‘room outside’, the subject of his seminal book of 1969 inspired by his early work in small London gardens. This talk will demonstrate how [...]
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