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The Institute for Garden and Landscape History

Private and Public Spaces in the Urban Landscape

Study Day

Saturday 14 March 2009

To be held at the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology

43 Woodland Road, Bristol

Speakers will include:

Dr Clare Hickman (University of Bristol)

Hygeia: The role of green spaces within the nineteenth-century concept of a city for health. Clare will also lead a guided walk around the old Homeopathic Hospital gardens.

Helena Chance (Kellogg College, University of Oxford)

The Commercial Value of Beauty and Fruitful Toil: Gardens and Gardening at the Model Factory in Britain and America, 1880-1939

Dr Ed Bennis (Manchester Metropolitan University),

Reinvigorating the Northern Industrial Townscape

Dr Ann Brooks

'Science, Liberality and Good Taste': Manchester and the Nineteenth-Century Movement for Subscription Botanic Gardens

The cost of the day to include morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea will be £25 full price and £20 for students and the unwaged.

To book and for more information please contact clare.hickman@bristol.ac.uk

For a map of 43 Woodland Road and directions to the university please see http://www.bristol.ac.uk/university/maps/. Please note that there is very limited metered parking within the university precinct.