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Talk by W. G. Hoskins
Since the appointment in 1533 of John Leland as King's Antiquary, the study of bocal records and local history has progressed in Great Britain until today it is almost universal. W. G. Hoskins , Reader in Economic History at Oxford, speaks of the importance of this increased interest in local history and of auch publications as those issued tn recent years by the Essex Record Office.

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Talk By:
W. G. Hoskins
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John Leland
Reader:
W. G. Hoskins

Talk by David Green

As a sequel to has three talks on the formal garden David Green quotes Stephen Switzer as epitomising the transitional period from the geometrical parterre to what Switzer called 'this farm-like way of gardening,' a back-to-nature cult which in turn was to lead to the painstakingly contrived 'natural' landscapes of Capability Brown.

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David Green

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