Tag Archives: john Piper

Seaton Delaval Revisited

Posted on 21/03/2026 by The Garden History Blog

It’s over ten years since I first visited Seaton Delaval Hall just north of Newcastle. I wrote a post about it shortly afterwards saying I’d been mesmerised by Vanbrugh’s final masterpiece. I returned last week and came away even more impressed. … Continue reading →

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Harlaxton: “Beyond your imagination”

Posted on 30/04/2022 by The Garden History Blog

Unfortunately I haven’t had a single answer to the question -“Why did he do it?” – that I posed at the end of last week’s post about Harlaxton the “Jacobethan” marvel dreamed up and then lovingly built by Gregory Gregory. … Continue reading →

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Recording Britain

Posted on 22/07/2017 by The Garden History Blog

War inspires artists,or rather requires artists, to produce propaganda, and many governments have used war artists to record a different take on what is going on to newscasts and documentary films. Usually this is strident, but on other occasions much … Continue reading →