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Richard Bisgrove
Richard Bisgrove studied horticulture and landscape architecture in England and the USA before lecturing for forty years at the University of Reading. He has had long associations with the Gardens Panel of the National Trust and with the Garden History Society, and has been involved with OUDCE for many years.
Courses
In this course we look briefly at the evolution of the Arts and Crafts movement, and then in more detail the extension of its philosophy and practices into the garden, especially the work of Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson.
This course will look at the evolution of the English garden from the Norman conquest of 1066 to the present day and at the people and ideas which have influenced that evolution, from monastic and castle gardens to everyone's garden in a democratic age.