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History Hub

Exploring Garden History

Discover the people, places, styles and stories that have shaped our historic landscapes. The History Hub brings together resources from across the Gardens Trust to help you explore centuries of garden design, from visionary designers to iconic sites and enduring traditions.

Apollo and the Muses on Mount Helicon. Claude Lorrain, 1680.

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Secateurs

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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Painshill Park: From Neglect to Restoration

A personal account of visiting and witnessing the remarkable restoration of one of England’s finest 18th-century landscape gardens by Tony Mott

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Jumpers for Goalposts: How Public Parks Built the Beautiful Game

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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A History of British Football Playing Surfaces

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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British Football Grounds of the 1960s and 70s

John takes us on a journey through football pitches of the 60s and 70s from both a spectator and a player’s perspective

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Council Sports Fields from the 1970s

Landscape Design Consultant John Harris recounts his career in Wigan Council’s Landscape Department helping to design and maintain designed landscapes

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Suffolk’s Historic Gardens and Parks Inventory

The Inventory is a freely available online resource dedicated to recording and understanding Suffolk’s rich and varied historic gardens, parks and designed landscapes.

People

After her career as a World War II codebreaker, Mavis went on to be at the forefront of the movement to protect historic designed landscapes, helping to ensure the survival of many important gardens for the future.

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Horatio’s Garden and the Legacy of Restorative Landscapes

Horatio’s Garden supports the recovery and wellbeing of people with spinal injuries within NHS healthcare settings

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Historic Designed Landscape as UK World Heritage Sites

Gardens Trust Trustee Chris Blandford OBE takes us on a tour of those with historic designed landscapes in the UK and the benefit this status brings

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Gardens for Healing

The idea that gardens can support healing is not a modern innovation, but a recurring theme within the history of designed landscapes.

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Playgrounds: a short history

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

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Grottoes

From ancient shrines to 18th century entertainment spaces we explore the development of grottoes in gardens.

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A-Z of Garden History

From allées to exedras, to hahas, Arts and Crafts gardens and the Anglo-chinois style, explore some of the features and styles of gardens throughout history in our a-z glossary.

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What is the Register of Parks and Gardens?

Our heritage of gardens, parks, and other designed ornamental and recreational landscapes are captured in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.