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  • Tuesday, March 5, 12:00 noon Eastern – Writing Up Garden History, Online

    The Gardens Trust will offer a free online session explaining how researchers can submit their findings to The Gardens Trust, on Tuesday, March 5. Open to all. This free session will explore the options for submitting your research, whether for our annual essay prize and new research symposium, or as a full academic article for publication in our peer-reviewed journal, Garden History. We’ll explain the surprisingly wide range of topics that fall within our remit and offer lots of tips and ideas to help you succeed. The session is aimed at post-graduate students and independent researchers in the UK and abroad – anyone who has new research findings to share in English on topics that will be of interest to our audience. The panel presentation will be recorded for those who can’t attend the live event, and there will be a chance at the end for you to ask questions.

    Linden Groves is Head of Operations & Strategy at the Gardens Trust. Her co-authored book The Gardens of English Heritage won the Garden Media Guild’s ‘Inspirational Book of the Year’ award in 2010 and she is now working on a history of playgrounds for Liverpool University Press.

    Dr Clare Hickman is Reader in Environmental and Medical History at Newcastle University and a Trustee of the Gardens Trust. She has published widely on landscape and garden history and was the first winner of the Garden History Essay prize in 2015.

    Dr Barbara Simms is editor of Garden History, the Journal of the Gardens Trust, and chair of the Mavis Batey Essay Prize. From 2014-21 she was course director for the MA in Garden and Landscape History at the Institute of Historical Research.

    Register HERE.

  • Tuesday, January 10, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science and Horticulture in Britain, Online

    Dr Clare Hickman is Reader in Environmental and Medical History at Newcastle University where her work focuses on the interconnections between landscape, health and sensory experience. As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation’s public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semi-public, and private gardens across Britain. Dr. Hickman highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration.

    This London Parks & Gardens online lecture on January 10 will focus on the topic of her book – which shares a title with this lecture and highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. £5.00 – Register HERE