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Articles found in Period Tag: Interwar

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Miss Dora Stafford was admired in 1930s society gossip columns but scandalised newspaper editors with her ‘solo’ plant hunting exploits at the age of 40.

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The Interwar Years (1918–1939) marked a pivotal shift in garden design, as landscapes responded to both personal grief and broader cultural transformation.

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Long before solar panels and smart irrigation, a different kind of energy was being quietly trialled in gardens across Europe: electricity.

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In a time when women were expected to stay in the drawing room, Ellen Ann Willmott (1858–1934) was digging in the dirt, often quite literally reshaping the landscape of British gardening.