An Introduction to Tudor and Stuart Gardens

David Marsh


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Anywhere
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Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
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Professional/academic/Hobby/Rotary/sometimes charity
Fee:
Paid: 100 online , more for travelling depending on distance etc
Category:
History
Updated:
30th January 2023

The 16th and 17th centuries were the first great age of garden making in England. We all know what they were like don’t we? Knots, box hedging, herbs…maybe a few roses but not much else…. but actually we’d all be wrong! There was brick dust and mythical beasts. There were snail mounts and sunflowers. There were mazes and maize. There were hidden secrets too!

This talk is about how the garden developed from being simply a place to grow food to an elaborate display of wealth and status for the rich, a source of pleasure and recreation for the less well-to-do, and a place of very hard work for the garden labourers who toiled in them.

Of course, the talk can be adapted, altered or made more specific …Elizabethan gardens, water gardens, Tudor royal gardens, religious gardens, how plant introductions changed the garden etc etc.

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About David Marsh

I've been lecturing "live" and on-line about every aspect of the history of gardens, landscapes, as well as plant hunting /plants/botany for more than 25 years to gardens clubs, U3A groups, and to museums like the V&A & across higher education. I discovered the subject because after a career as a head teacher I took very early retirement and went back into education full time on my own account. I did a four year diploma course in Garden History which led on to an MA in Historical Research and then a PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London on The Gardens and Gardeners of Later Stuart London.

I was a trustee of The Gardens Trust, the national campaigning body for the protection and support of our historic parks, gardens and designed landscapes and chaired their education committee from 2016 until 2023. I also write a weekly blog for them which you can find at thegardenstrust.blog

I've run courses on the history of gardens [and many other things] at Birkbeck and City Lit. I'm currently an honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham and run a Masters Course in Garden History as well as offering supervision to PhD students.

If all that sounds posh - rest assured I'm not!


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