Online Zoom talk to be given by Professor Tom Williamson, Professor of History, University of Easy Anglia
This talk will look at recent research into the gardens of Humphry Repton, a son of East Anglia, in the counties of Hertfordshire and Norfolk. Repton was the last great landscape gardener of the eighteenth century. How did his landscapes and methods differ from predecessors like Capability Brown? Why is he so highly regarded? And what remains of his legacy in Norfolk and Herts?
Tom Williamson, Professor of History, University of East Anglia, is both a landscape historian and archaeologist with wide-ranging interests. He currently works with others on a study of the important Anglo-Saxon site at Rendlesham in Suffolk. He also researches designed landscapes, especially parks and gardens of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and is currently involved with the Gardens Trusts of Hertfordshire and Norfolk in researching the work of the designer Humphry Repton in these two counties. He teaches courses on landscape history at undergraduate and MA level, and supervises MPhil and PhD students researching a variety of subjects related to landscape history, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.
