Sea Horses, plate 52 in Cook’s Voyage to the Pacific, 1784

an online talk by Phil Philo at 7.30pm on Monday, 21 March 2022

Phil Philo knows our area because he was Curator at Gunnersbury Park Museum in the 1980s. His wide-ranging knowledge of Cook’s journeys in the 18th century comes from his work managing the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum in Middlesbrough 2002-17 and a voyage on the replica of the Endeavour in 2003.

As usual there will be no charge to join this event but you should reserve a place via Ticketsource or use https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-remqqj

Zoom details will be sent to ticket holders on the evening of Sunday 20 March, or on Monday; last minute tickets available up to 6.30pm on the day of the talk. Please note you only need to book one ticket per screen, even if you will be watching with a friend!

Hogarth’s House garden, 1913, Jessie MacGregor

by Dr Sally Jeffery, in the Weston Studio at Hogarth’s House
Tickets £8, talk only, or £10 with a drink

This talk is part of the programme of events organised by the Hogarth’s House team. It will look at smaller gardens in London and its environs, focussing mainly on the time of Hogarth and his contemporaries.

Small gardens, like the one at Hogarth’s House, have been rather neglected by historians, who have tended to explore the stories of grander and larger gardens in town and country. However, modest plots cultivated by less wealthy people are equally interesting. Some were used solely for growing vegetables and fruit, with just a few flowers for ornament, while others were entirely devoted to pleasure and entertainment, and some happily combined the usefulness of the productive garden with opportunities to enjoy outdoor spaces and gardening activities.

Dr Sally Jeffery is an architectural and garden historian. She lives in Chiswick and has been a Trustee of the William Hogarth Trust for a number of years. Sally was historian at the City of London and then helped to set up a Master’s degree in garden history at Birkbeck (University of London). She now lectures on the MA Garden & Landscape History at the Institute of Historical Research and for The Gardens Trust, of which she is a Trustee. She enjoys researching and writing about the history of gardens large and small, particularly those of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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