Hosted in partnership with The Gardens Trust, this Garden Museum livestreamed course provides an introduction to the history of gardens and garden design through the ages. This course offers students with little or no previous knowledge a chronological panorama of the development of garden history from medieval and Tudor gardens through to the twentieth century, and will end with the 21st century, tomorrow’s history in the making!
The sixteen lectures will run over four Saturdays, January 18 – February 8, and be delivered by well-known speakers and experts in their fields.
Week One: Saturday January 18 2025
- What is garden history with Tim Richardson
- Overview of the early modern era with Jill Francis
- John Tradescant naturalist, gardener, collector with speaker TBA
- Looking at surviving 17th century gardens with Jill Francis
Week Two: Saturday 25 January 2025
- Setting the scene of the Georgian era with Dr. Twigs Way
- Looking at landscape parks with Dr .Twigs Way
- Looking follies and grottoes with Peter Cooke
- Understanding picturesque landscapes with Dr. Deborah Evans
Week Three: Saturday 1 February 2025
- Setting the scene on the Victorian era with Francesca Murray
- High Victorian design with Ben Dark
- Working class gardening with Ben Dark
- Looking at the arts and crafts garden with Cherrill Sands
Week Four: Saturday 8 February 2025
Modern women gardeners with Caroline Holmes
Overview of the 20th & 21st Century with Tim Richardson
Post industrial landscapes with John Little
Planting styles in the 20th century flower garden with Andrew Wilson
Livestream 4-week course: £100. Livestream single day: £30. Register at www.gardenmuseum.org.uk
