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Articles found in Century Group: 19th Century

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Cecil Pinsent trained in London before settling in Florence, where he created symmetrical, geometrically ordered Tuscan gardens for the vibrant local Anglo-American expatriate community.

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English gardens have been deeply intertwined with Italian design since Roman antiquity, evolving through Tudor symmetry, classical 18th-century revivalism, and Victorian geometric formalism.

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The Society has produced an Annual Report since 1833 and these invaluable records are now available online

Places / Topics

One of the city’s most enduring innovations has been quietly shaping lives for almost two centuries.

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The invention and troubled introduction of the secateur in France and England as a replacement to the billhook and pruning knife

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The rise of football in Britain coincided with one of the great social innovations of the nineteenth century – the creation of public parks.

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The first football pitches of the 1800s were scythed or grazed but over time evolved into highly maintained landscapes incorporating drainage, heating and new technology such as Astroturf

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Designed to improve our health and community cohesion, playgrounds began as ‘gymnasia’ for all to use.

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One of the greatest ‘inventions’ of the 19th century was the public park. Today, we all use them – and love them – but what do we actually know about them?