Lecture - Silk, waterwheels, iron and smoke: Gardens of Industrial Improvement with Dr. Dianne Long
Sat 29 Mar 2025 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution, BA1 2HN
Description
Georgian attitudes to the industrial were devoid of later sensibilities to the conditions of manufactories and communities during the height of the Industrial Revolution that hid such activity from view. On the contrary, the presence of the industrial in the Georgian garden aesthetic was not hidden but frequently enhanced a multi-sensory, often sublime experience. The industrial represented a further taming of Nature by the art of man within the designed landscape. The new inventions fascinated being yet another facet of the drive for improvement. Architecture, water, planting, the journey to and through the landscape, all contributed to an integration of the ornamental and industrial landscape. This talk explores how the industrial in the Georgian garden often co-existed far more than might have hitherto been considered.
Speaker Biography
Dianne is a garden historian with a first degree in Russian and Slavonic Studies, an MA in Garden History and a PhD in Georgian Industrialists’ Landscapes, as well as a diploma in garden design and the RHS Diploma in Horticulture. She is a past chair of Devon Gardens Trust and currently chair of its Conservation Committee, she is also on the Gardens Advisory Committee for the Dartington Hall Trust (gardens Grade II*). She has published and lectured on garden history, and other topics.
Location
Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution, BA1 2HN