Category Archives: Talk

CGT member Gin Warren (above) reports that she is flattered to have had some of her research material selected by the University of Birmingham for inclusion on their blogspot. The blog results from Gin’s presentation at the Centre for Midlands History and Cultures conference this summer, where the focus was on the intersection of gardenContinue reading “News Item: Dr Gin Warren”

Events that have featured on our News pages are archived below in reverse date order.

Events that have featured on our News pages are archived below in reverse date order.

Jane Webb was later Mrs John Loudon. This is a new edition by Naperville: Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks, 2022. First edition: anonymous,  London: Henry Colburn, 1827 and thereby hangs a tale. Colburn’s second edition credited Jane Webb as the author. This event has now passed Title Meet the Book Manufactory of Bayswater!Continue reading “Live Talk: Dr Gin Warren”

Left: ‘Watering Place, Juan Fernandez’ from Maria Callcott’s book ‘Journal of a Residence in Chile’ (1824). This event has now passed Title ‘I Narrowly Avoided Becoming a Slattern’: An exploration of female plant-collectors Abstract From cross-dressing sailors to ‘diplomatic wives’ and footloose spinster artists, women have collected plants from across the continents.  Rarely setting offContinue reading “Live Talk: Dr Twigs Way”

This event has now passed Title: Finding lost gardens at Beningbrough Hall, while making a modern one. Abstract: The garden history of Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire, one time home to the Bourchier family, presents an enigma, despite the the hall’s significance as one of the finest baroque houses in England. In 2024 the second garden (in aContinue reading “Zoom Talk – NT archaeologist Mark Newman”