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