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Institute of Historical Research Seminars in the History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminars in garden and landscape history will begin in the summer term of 2004. All interested and those involved in academic research are welcome. The introductory series will concentrate on the interdisciplinary nature of this fairly recent body of academic thought. Meetings are at 5.30 pm on alternate Fridays in the Wolfson Room of the Institute of Historical Research on the following dates: 30 April What is Garden History? Dr Janet Waymark, Birkbeck, University of London. 14 May ‘Too Sensitive to Land’. The pre-war Modern House in England and its Setting. Dr Alan Powers, University of Greenwich. 28 May Landscape, the Garden and the Art of Evelyn Dunbar: the place of Biography in Garden History. Dr Gill Clarke, University of Southampton. 11 June ‘Art of the Garden’: Curating the Exhibition at Tate Britain’. Professor Stephen Daniels, University of Nottingham. 25 June Demesne Landscape Survey in Ireland and the Role of Archaeology. Terence Reeves-Smyth, Environment and Heritage Service, Belfast. For further information contact Dr Janet Waymark: janetwaymark@yahoo.co.uk or Dr Alan Powers:pasquito@aol.com More
information on seminars at the IHR can
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