Daily Archives: January 19, 2023

Thursday, January 26, 2:00 pm Eastern – At Home with Henrietta Howard: A Curated Tour of Marble Hill, Online

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The American Friends of English Heritage in conjunction with English Heritage are delighted to invite you to our next webinar taking place on Zoom on Thursday January 26th at 2pm EST.

Marble Hill, on the banks of the Thames in West London, was in created by Henrietta Howard; a remarkable woman who overcame personal adversity to become a prominent figure in Georgian court society and a visionary patron of the arts. The Palladian villa became a centre for Henrietta’s influential cultural, intellectual and political circle. Here she entertained friends on a scale which was said to rival the royal court.


Join Dr. Tessa Kilgarriff for this curated virtual tour of Marble Hill through the furniture, silver, porcelain and silk textiles that reveal Henrietta Howard’s passions and personality. Dr Tessa Kilgarriff is Curator of Collections and Interiors at English Heritage, where she researches and cares for the paintings, furniture and decorative arts collections across two eighteenth-century Palladian villas: Marble Hill and Chiswick House. Prior to working at English Heritage, she was Assistant Curator at Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village. Tessa is a specialist in British art and completed her PhD at the University of Bristol in 2019.

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Thursday, January 26, 5:00 am – 6:30 am – Garden-Making Between the Wars: Tradition, Modernism and Englishness, Online

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The years 1920-1939 in England can be considered two decades of new thinking and surprising vibrancy and vision despite their setting of the aftermath of war, financial crises, unemployment, the abdication of King Edward VIII and the imminent threat of a Second World War. It was an age of consumerism, unprecedented development and suburban expansion and one in which ‘modern’ concepts of design from Europe and the United States of America began to be more widely seen in architecture, interiors and domestic goods. This talk examines the extent to which modern ideas from abroad also influenced interwar gardens, in contrast to nostalgia for the romantic, plant-focused gardens in fashion before the First World War. It also considers how far ownership of a house and garden represented the countryside idyll, with an emphasis on traditional village life and a desire for fresh air.

Barbara Simms is a garden and landscape historian with a particular interest in the history, conservation and interpretation of gardens of the 20th and 21st centuries. She has qualifications in garden history, garden design and the conservation of historic landscapes, has completed projects for heritage organisations and was chair of the London Parks & Gardens Trust 2002-8. Dr Simms has written a number of articles and two books, Eric Lyons and Span (ed.) (RIBA Publishing, 2006) and John Brookes. Garden and Landscape Designer (Conran Octopus, 2007). From 2014 she was course director for the MA in Garden and Landscape History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, until the course closed in 2022. She is editor of Garden History, the Journal of the Gardens Trust, and also the new annual academic journal of the Sussex Gardens Trust.

This Gardens Trust online lecture is one in a series on the 20th Century Garden. Tickets £30 for series or £5 each. Register HERE through Eventbrite. Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days (and again a few hours) prior to the start of the first talk (If you do not receive this link please contact us), and a link to the recorded session will be sent shortly after each session and will be available for 1 week.