A spot of multifunctional #urbangreenspace. #suds

The final seminar of the term, on 26th March, is a paper on 'Meanwhile Gardens: Looking Back over Fifty Years', with Clive Adams, Jose Crespo Martins and Rohan McCullough. This is a hybrid seminar. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The next seminar in our winter series will be on 12 March, with Stephen Smith's paper, 'Highgate Cemetery: Demands on a Designed Landscape'. This will be a hybrid seminar. Our seminars are free, registration link below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We continue our winter seminar series on 26 February, with Moirika Reker's paper, 'Urban Fruits: The Public Orchard as a Bridge to the Landscape'. This is an online only seminar, please find registration details below. #gardenhistory #orchard @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

The next seminar in our winter series will be on 12 February, with Kalina Prelikj's paper, 'Fifteen Years of New York City’s High Line: A Closer Look at its Impact on Urban Design'. This is an online only seminar. #gardenhistory @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join me online at 6pm on Wed 18 Feb to find out more about our unique Ambleside-based MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District (with full time & part time study options available)🍃📚 x.com/cumbriaengli...

Exhibition | Gardens of Enlightenment, 1750–1800 enfilade18thc.com/2026/01/04/e... #C18th #garden #enlightenment #earlymodern

The next seminar in our winter series will be on 29 January, with Laurence Pattacini's paper, 'Walking the River Edge: How Public Walks Enhanced the City’s Relationship with Water'. This will be a hybrid seminar. #gardenhistory @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Registration is open for Ines Babnik's paper, 'Historic Gardens and the Future of Urban Greening: Testing Nature-based Solutions Across Time', on 15 January. Our seminars are free and open to all, please register via link below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our term series, ‘Verdopolis: Green Space and the Urban Landscape’ commences on 15 January, with Ines Babnik's paper, 'Historic Gardens and the Future of Urban Greening: Testing Nature-based Solutions Across Time'. Registration opens 12 January. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Thoreau’s “Succession of Forest Trees” and the Challenge of Change, posting by Dan McKanan on the @harvardcswr.bsky.social site. "What if the future of forests depends less on human management than on our willingness to learn from other species?" cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/12...

Anyone looking for a Christmas present idea? Our inspirational publication with 5 star reviews, 'Conversations in Garden History: New Research, New Ideas, New Approaches', is available in either paperback or kindle format, from www.amazon.co.uk/Conversation...

Our final seminar of the autumn term, on 4 December, will be Deborah Chambers's paper, 'A Gift to the Community? Public Art, Land Restoration and Public Relations'. Our seminars are free and open to all, please register via link below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The next seminar in our autumn series will be on 20 November, with Riccardo Guarino's paper, 'Art, Nature, and Ethics: a biocentric critique of art installations in natural ecosystems'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A reminder of our seminar on Thursday, 6th November.

Our autumn seminar series continues on 6 November, with Maria Huhmarniemi's paper, 'Art and Educational Practices with Arctic Land and Communities'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our next seminar in the autumn series will be on 23 October, with Leigh Arnold's paper, 'Exceeding the Field of Vision: Women of Land Art'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Don't forget to tune in to BBC Gardeners' World this evening at 8pm on BBC2 to see the Garden's Director, @beverleycubg.bsky.social, talking to Nick Bailey on how flowers make colour & how they use it to attract pollinators. Read more: bit.ly/4838O1P @camplantsci.bsky.social

Our autumn term seminar series continues, on 9 October, with Mark Allwood Portillo and Kathryn Last's paper, 'Andy Goldsworthy: Temporalities of Matter and Forms of Resistance'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

The first seminar in our autumn series, on 25 September, will be Joy Sleeman's paper, 'Land Art (whatever that might be): a history reconsidered'. Our seminars are free and open to all. Registration details below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

During the coming autumn term the seminar will step out of the garden to consider land art as design in the landscape. See details for 'Design in the Landscape: The Evolution of Land Art' here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!

Now open @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! Smelling the Bouquet: Plants & Scents in the Garden (May 2, 2025 – March 31, 2026) explores the spectrum of scents plants create, inspired by the diverse live & scientific collections @mobotgarden.bsky.social. More: www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gard...

UK sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #WomensArt

Reviving the Benton End Walled Garden thedirt.news/appeal-for-t... #bentonend #garden #walledgarden #cedricmorris #conservation #gardenmuseum

This term's seminar programme continues, on 12th June, with Bettina Dietz's paper, 'Paul Hermann’s annotated herbaria: philology, ethnobotany, and techniques of text-making in eighteenth-century botany'. This is an online only seminar. More details and registration below: @ihr.bsky.social

This term's seminar programme continues, on 12th June, with Bettina Dietz's paper, 'Paul Hermann’s annotated herbaria: philology, ethnobotany, and techniques of text-making in eighteenth-century botany'. This is an online only seminar. More details and registration below: @ihr.bsky.social

Our Spring/Summer seminar programme continues, on 15th May, with Pengcheng Zhou's paper 'Conifers and Power: The Political and Sacred Symbolism of Trees in Chinese History'. This is an online only seminar. Further details below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/conif...

Our Spring/Summer seminar programme continues, on 15th May, with Pengcheng Zhou's paper 'Conifers and Power: The Political and Sacred Symbolism of Trees in Chinese History'. This is an online only seminar. Further details below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/conif...

We are delighted to announce our programme for the Spring/Summer term 2025. Our first seminar will be Ian Mell's paper 'Motifs, Policies, and Functions in East and Southeast Asia: "green space" as a travelling concept', on 1st May 2025: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/motif...

Hugely exciting doctoral studentship opportunity supervised by the IHR's @justincolson.bsky.social, @adamchapman.bsky.social, and @charlesxhistory.bsky.social, Alexandra Stevenson of Historic Royal Palaces. Applications close 26th May 2025.

The final Seminar of our Winter series, on 20 March, will be Leslie Wylie's '‘Blossoming places in the wilderness’: W. H. Hudson’s anti-gardens'. Further details below: www.history.ac.uk/events/bloss... @ihr.bsky.social