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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.

Articles

Garden Historians

Gardens Trust Director Linden Groves shares how she began her career in historic parks and gardens

Garden Historians

Freelance Historic Landscapes Research Consultant Dr Louise Crawley tells us about her career journey
Freelance writer, researcher and lecturer Dr Laura Mayer shares how she ‘fell’ into garden history

Garden Historians

Independent scholar Dr Jill Francis shares her journey into garden history from beginning her career at the BBC

Garden Historians

University lecturer Camilla Allen shares her route into garden history from landscape architecture

Garden Historians

National Trust curator Dr Caroline Ikin shares her journey following a Garden History MA

Garden Historians

Garden history consultant and Gardens Trust trustee Jill Sinclair tells us how her interest in landscape design led her to the subject

Garden Historians

Garden historian, teacher and writer Cherrill Sands tells us about her horticultural career change

Garden Historians

Garden, plant and social historian Advolly Richmond tells us about her move from the automotive industry to gardens

Garden Historians

Garden historian David Marsh tells us about his move from teaching to garden history

Garden Historians

Gardener and author Ben Dark tells us about his career as a head gardener and historian

People

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.

Places

Established to provide recreation and education for the growing middle classes, Sheffield Botanical Gardens was first designed by Robert Marnock in 1834.

People

Robert Marnock (1800-89) was a Scottish landscape gardener, designer, curator, nurseryman, head gardener, garden writer and editor who designed many gardens across Britain.

Topics

Gardens Trust Vice President Michael Symes provides his overview of this diverse subject and the insights it offers into other areas of historical research