Sponsored by the Friends of History of Garden and Landscape Seminar
Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated
Time: Thursdays 18:00
Convenors: Michael Ann Mullen, Christine Lalumia (Sotheby's Institute of Art & UCL), David Marsh, Stephen Smith
For enquiries: ihrgardenhistory@gmail.com
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27 September 18:00 |
‘Shipping, coal, religion and temperance: Reginald Cory’s sponsorship of botany and horticulture’ Jean Reader (Independent Scholar)
IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR |
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11 October 18:00 |
‘Purchasing Paradise: origins of the money that financed the great gardens’ Roderick Floud (Gresham College)
IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR |
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25 October 18:00 |
‘Guns and Roses: Humphrey Repton and the New Money’ Advolly Richmond (Independent Scholar)
IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR |
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8 November 18:00 |
‘The “Blackamoor” Statue: symbol of commercial bounty and the slave trade’ Patrick Eyres (editor-publisher ‘New Arcadian Journal’)
IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR |
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22 November 18:00 |
‘Wanstead and wealth from the East Indies’ Hannah Armstrong (Birkbeck College University of London)
IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR |
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6 December 18:00 |
‘Snowshill: the Wade family and sugar’ Julie Reynolds (National Trust)
IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR |