Nine Historic Places, linked by the Thames, have joined together to celebrate their landscape, history and luminaries. Marble Hill House has joined with Pope’s Grotto, Hogarth’s House, Turners House, Chiswick House, Strawberry Hill, Boston Manor, Orleans Gallery, Ham House to present a series of lectures, which will take place on Zoom and will be hosted by broadcaster and literary critic Prof. Judith Hawley.
The lecture series will take place at 7pm each day:
- 27th January – Within the garden walls at Hogarth’s House
- 28th January – A painter’s garden: J.M.W. Turner and the grounds of Sandycombe Lodge
- 29th January – Alexander Pope: the poet and the poetic landscape
- 3rd February – Chiswick House, William Kent, and the birth of the English Landscape Movement
- 4th February – Marble Hill: Howard and her garden of grottos and groves
- 5th February – Strawberry Hill: The open grove in which Walpole explored ‘the gaiety in nature’
- 10th February – Fishponds, great cedars and Jayne Mansfield: renovating the historic landscapes of Boston Manor Park for the 21st century
- 11th February – Pleasure Garden to Parkland: The Changing Landscape of Orleans
- 12 February – 7th to 21st century – is Ham House Garden still a garden of contemporary ideas?
You can book your lecture series here.