BGHG organises an annual Study Day, OPEN TO ALL, which this year will take place on Saturday 29 March 2025.
Venue: The Gallery, Alan Baxter Building, 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EL. (Nearest Underground is Farringdon).
Public Parks in Britain over Time
The Study Day will explore changing attitudes to public urban spaces and their evolution from the 17th to the 21st centuries.
Programme
10.00 am Registration and coffee
10.25 am Introduction. Chairman: Annabel Down, Landscape Architect-Garden Designer
10.30 am Privatising Public Space in Early Modern London
Speaker: Dr David Marsh, Garden Historian
11.30 am Short break
11.45 am Public Parks - the Proliferation of Urban Parks in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Speaker: Dr Paul Rabbitts, Environmental Services Manager, Norwich City Council and Parks Historian
12.45 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Public Parks in the Twenty-first Century
Speaker: David Lambert, Director, Parks Agency