Oxford Garden and Landscape History Seminar A Franco-British Forum for Garden and Landscape Studies

November 2013

View over the Wiltshire downs Laurent Chtel

The Figure in the Estate: The Rle of Gardeners and Stewards in the Designing of Landscapes 11.00 am
Sarah Law, Nottingham University Tis a great trust: The Part Played by Thomas Smith, Early EighteenthCentury Estate Steward to Sir George Savile, 7th Baronet, in the Landscaping of Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire Sally O'Halloran, Sheffield University, 'The Serviceable Ghost; the Forgotten Role of the Gardener in England from 1630 to 1730 Susanne Seymour, Nottingham University William Speechly and the Scope of Estate Gardening at Welbeck, Nottinghamshire in the later 18 th century

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23RD, 10.45 16.30

14.15 pm
Clare Bucknell, All Souls College, Oxford Surveying the Prospect: Landowners and Poets in the Eighteenth-Century Country House Poem Glyn Jones (Hidcote), Nick Lightfoot (The Vyne), Barry Smith (Stowe) and Garry Webb (Compton Verney) From The National Trust Headgardeners Point of View : Current Practice-Consensus or Dissensus? Laurent Chtel, Univ. Paris Sorbonne-CNRS-MFO
E-mail: laurent.chatel@ell.ox.ac.uk Website: http://www.mfo.ac.uk/en/projects/oxford-garden-and-landscape-history-seminar Registration (on the day): 3 pounds.

Convener:

2-10 Norham Road, Oxford, OX2 6SE | (01865) 274 220 | | laurent.chatel@ell.ox.ac.uk |http //www.mfo.ac.uk