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History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes Seminar. Further details for our Thursday term time seminars: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminar/history-gardens-and-designed-landscapes
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The next seminar in our autumn series will be on 20 November, with Riccardo Guarino's paper, 'Art, Nature, and Ethics: a biocentric critique of art installations in natural ecosystems'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social
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Art, Nature, and Ethics: a biocentric critique of art installations in natural ecosystems
This session will explore the ethics of contemporary art in nature, questioning ecological harm, commodification, and proposing non-intrusive, restorative alternatives.
www.history.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A reminder of our seminar on Thursday, 6th November.
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Our autumn seminar series continues on 6 November, with Maria Huhmarniemi's paper, 'Art and Educational Practices with Arctic Land and Communities'. Our seminars are free and open to all.
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Art and Educational Practices with Arctic Land and Communities
This session will explore new genre Arctic art, blending activism, community, and ecology to address climate, culture, and sustainability through participatory practices.
www.history.ac.uk
November 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Our next seminar in the autumn series will be on 23 October, with Leigh Arnold's paper, 'Exceeding the Field of Vision: Women of Land Art'. Our seminars are free and open to all.
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Exceeding the Field of Vision: Women of Land Art
This session will explore women’s contributions to 1960s Land art, highlighting their innovative works and reshaping its history beyond the male-dominated narrative.
www.history.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
Don't forget to tune in to BBC Gardeners' World this evening at 8pm on BBC2 to see the Garden's Director,
@beverleycubg.bsky.social, talking to Nick Bailey on how flowers make colour & how they use it to attract pollinators.
Read more: bit.ly/4838O1P
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CUBG Director, Beverley Glover and presenter Nick Bailey while being filmed for Gardeners' World in the CUBG Glasshouse Range. Beverley is pipetting colour liquid and there are various flasks on the table in front of them and a TV camera and boom operator to one side
October 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Our autumn term seminar series continues, on 9 October, with Mark Allwood Portillo and Kathryn Last's paper, 'Andy Goldsworthy: Temporalities of Matter and Forms of Resistance'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social
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Andy Goldsworthy: Temporalities of Matter and Forms of Resistance
This paper explores the relationship between temporality, sustainability, and ecological art through the work of Land artist Andy Goldsworthy
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September 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Sep 22
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:
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Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
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September 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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The first seminar in our autumn series, on 25 September, will be Joy Sleeman's paper, 'Land Art (whatever that might be): a history reconsidered'. Our seminars are free and open to all. Registration details below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Land Art (whatever that might be): a history reconsidered
This session will explore 30 years of Land art research, tracing its histories, sites, ecologies, and legacies while provoking fresh views on past and present works.
www.history.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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During the coming autumn term the seminar will step out of the garden to consider land art as design in the landscape. See details for 'Design in the Landscape: The Evolution of Land Art' here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Supported by the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes Seminar Supporters Group and Birkbeck Garden History Group .
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September 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!
Leeds IMC 2026 Call for Papers: When is a Landscape? The Landscape Consortium invites papers exploring medieval landscapes in and beyond time, their multiscalar and multitemporal constructions and interpretations, and their meanings within medieval or modern worlds. When is a landscape? Following the lead of Yannis Hamilakis’ work (2013) demonstrating that object and place are witnesses to coexistences of times, this session seeks to explore medieval landscapes as carriers of concurrent past, present and future places and meanings, and as bridges between multiple scales of studies and multiple times. We are particularly interested in creative, theoretic and interpretive research to understand how landscape can – and do – transcend temporal boundaries. Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: • Multiscalar explorations of place and landscapes • Dynamic theories and interpretations • Multiple, concurrent times understood in landscapes and places • Microhistories or biographies of landscapes Papers are welcome from any area of the world and ‘medieval’ broadly conceived. Please send a 250-word abstract (plus key terms), short CV, and contact information to landscapeconsortium@gmail.com by 15 September. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organizers at the same email. The Landscape Consortium is dedicated to promotion of multidisciplinary research into the landscapes of the medieval world. The organizing directors are Drs Karl Christian Alvestad, Daniel Brown, Stefanie Schild, Johannes Waldschütz and Katherine Weikert.
August 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Now open @mobotmuseum.bsky.social!

Smelling the Bouquet: Plants & Scents in the Garden (May 2, 2025 – March 31, 2026) explores the spectrum of scents plants create, inspired by the diverse live & scientific collections @mobotgarden.bsky.social.

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May 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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UK sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #WomensArt
Photo of a willow sculpture in a woodland, the sculpture resembles a female archer with flowing long skirt about to shoot an arrow into the distance
July 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Reviving the Benton End Walled Garden thedirt.news/appeal-for-t... #bentonend #garden #walledgarden #cedricmorris #conservation #gardenmuseum
Reviving The Benton End Walled Garden
The Garden Museum has launched an appeal to raise £125,000 to bring the walled garden at Benton End back to life.
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June 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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This term's seminar programme continues, on 12th June, with Bettina Dietz's paper, 'Paul Hermann’s annotated herbaria: philology, ethnobotany, and techniques of text-making in eighteenth-century botany'. This is an online only seminar. More details and registration below:
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Paul Hermann’s annotated herbaria: Philology, ethnobotany, and techniques of text-making in eighteenth-century botany
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May 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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This term's seminar programme continues, on 12th June, with Bettina Dietz's paper, 'Paul Hermann’s annotated herbaria: philology, ethnobotany, and techniques of text-making in eighteenth-century botany'. This is an online only seminar. More details and registration below:
@ihr.bsky.social
Paul Hermann’s annotated herbaria: Philology, ethnobotany, and techniques of text-making in eighteenth-century botany
www.history.ac.uk
May 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Our Spring/Summer seminar programme continues, on 15th May, with Pengcheng Zhou's paper 'Conifers and Power: The Political and Sacred Symbolism of Trees in Chinese History'. This is an online only seminar. Further details below:
@ihr.bsky.social
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Conifers and Power: The Political and Sacred Symbolism of Trees in Chinese History
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May 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Our Spring/Summer seminar programme continues, on 15th May, with Pengcheng Zhou's paper 'Conifers and Power: The Political and Sacred Symbolism of Trees in Chinese History'. This is an online only seminar. Further details below:
@ihr.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/events/conif...
Conifers and Power: The Political and Sacred Symbolism of Trees in Chinese History
www.history.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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We are delighted to announce our programme for the Spring/Summer term 2025. Our first seminar will be Ian Mell's paper 'Motifs, Policies, and Functions in East and Southeast Asia: "green space" as a travelling concept', on 1st May 2025: @ihr.bsky.social
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Motifs, policies, and functions in East and Southeast Asia: "green space" as a travelling concept
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April 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Hugely exciting doctoral studentship opportunity supervised by the IHR's @justincolson.bsky.social, @adamchapman.bsky.social, and @charlesxhistory.bsky.social, Alexandra Stevenson of Historic Royal Palaces. Applications close 26th May 2025.
April 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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The final Seminar of our Winter series, on 20 March, will be Leslie Wylie's '‘Blossoming places in the wilderness’: W. H. Hudson’s anti-gardens'. Further details below: www.history.ac.uk/events/bloss... @ihr.bsky.social
‘Blossoming places in the wilderness’: W. H. Hudson’s anti-gardens
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March 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM