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BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN: Romance and Reason 3…

Posted on 14/02/2014 by The Garden History Blog

I suppose the question I have been trying to pose over the last couple of posts has been : are we in danger of losing our sense of the ‘romantic’ in the pursuit of the rationally ‘perfect’? The late Victorians … Continue reading →

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BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN: Romance and Reason 2…..

Posted on 08/02/2014 by The Garden History Blog

In my last post I was waxing lyrical about the way that history and ruins in particular were romanticized  in the 19thc, and how gradually Ruskin’s idea of trusteeship of  the ‘national heritage’ were adapted and adopted.  This came at … Continue reading →

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BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN: Romance and Reason

Posted on 07/02/2014 by The Garden History Blog

I’m a hoarder and always have been. I’ve also been interested in history all my life and even as a child I collected anything and everything in the hope that one day it would come in ‘useful’.  Having written last … Continue reading →

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Snowdrop Days

Posted on 27/01/2014 by The Garden History Blog

I saw my first snowdrops of the season last week, pushing their way through the semi-liquid mud in a friend’s garden. It almost looked as if it needed swimming lessons. But it set me thinking how archetypally English we take … Continue reading →

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Copped Hall revisited

Posted on 20/01/2014 by The Garden History Blog

The weather yesterday was wonderful so I decided to take my own advice [for a change] and went for a winter walk.  And having written recently about Copped Hall discovered that it had one its monthly open days I set … Continue reading →

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