What are the next steps in historic designed landscape designation?
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The Gardens Trust is marking the 40th Anniversary of the 1983 national Heritage Act and the statutory measure to set up a Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest, a world -first in recognising the cultural importance of garden and landscape design and the need to protect it. At the core of […]
Mavis Batey Essay Prize awarded to Abigail Carr for essay on South Shields’ Marine Park
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This year’s winner of the essay prize is Abigail Carr, who has recently completed the History of Medicine MA programme at Newcastle University, UK, for her entry: ‘”A park in which beauty and pure air could be united”: South Shields’ Marine Park and the Nineteenth-Century Conception of Health and Wellness.’ Within this essay she expertly […]