Special online lecture by renowned UK Garden Historian, Caroline Holmes. Mary in the Paradise Garden with Saints, c1410-20, Master of the Upper Rhine: Every plant is symbolic as is the enclosure A medieval tapestry of plants, people and poetry, medieval […]
Lecture 1: Ecstatic about seaweed: eighteenth-century women tourists & scientific collecting ‘The Miss Beauforts were ecstatic about the seaweed’, wrote Jane Austen in her unfinished novel, Sandition. For the sisters, seaweed collecting was not just a scientific activity, but also […]