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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.

Articles

You can filter our history hub using the categories below to view People, Places and Styles. We’ll be adding other ways to explore our History Hub as it grows.

Topics

We easily forget how life-changing some gardening inventions can be. One of those is undoubtedly the watering can. So who invented the watering can? And when?

Topics

What has a 16th century Italian architect got to do with 18th century English gardens? How did the Grand Tour indirectly influence garden design features?

Periods

With the end of the Wars of the Roses, England under the Tudor monarchs became a more peaceful country than it had been previously. Architecture became less defensive and more outward looking and the rich further developed their gardens.

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