Scotland S Lost Gardens

Author : Marilyn Brown (archaeological investigator.)
Publisher : Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Gardening
ISBN : NYPL:33433111347419

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Scotland's Lost Gardens by Marilyn Brown (archaeological investigator.) Pdf

Gardens are one of the most important elements in the cultural history of Scotland. Like any art form, they provide an insight into social, political and economic fashions, they intimately reflect the personalities and ideals of the individuals who created them, and they capture the changing fortunes of successive generations of monarchs and noblemen. Yet they remain fragile features of the landscape, easily changed, abandoned or destroyed, leaving little or no trace.In Scotland's Lost Gardens, author Marilyn Brown rediscovers the fascinating stories of the nation's vanished historic gardens. Drawing on varied, rare and newly available archive material, including the cartography of Timothy Pont, a spy map of Holyrood drawn for Henry VIII during the 'Rough Wooing', medieval charters, renaissance poetry, the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer, and modern aerial photography, a remarkable picture emerges of centuries of lost landscapes.Starting with the monastic gardens of St Columba on the Isle of Iona in the sixth century, and encompassing the pleasure parks of James IV and James V, the royal and noble refuges of Mary Queen of Scots, and the 'King's Knot', the garden masterpiece which lies below Stirling Castle, the history of lost gardens is inextricably linked to the wider history of the nation, from the spread of Christianity to the Reformation and the Union of the Crowns.The product of over 30 years of research, Scotland's Lost Gardens demonstrates how our cultural heritage sits within a wider European movement of shared artistic values and literary influences. Providing a unique perspective on this common past, it is also a fascinating guide to Scotland's disappeared landscapes and sanctuaries - lost gardens laid out many hundreds of years ago 'for the honourable delight of body and soul'.

Author : Scotland's Gardens Scheme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0901549258

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Gardens of Scotland 2011. by Scotland's Gardens Scheme Pdf

A directory of Scotland's finest gardens opening for charity for Scotland's Gardens Scheme

Author : Catherine Rice
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Cottage gardens
ISBN : 9781783276622

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Cottage Gardens and Gardeners in the East of Scotland, 1750-1914 by Catherine Rice Pdf

This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the most dynamic and prosperous region of Scotland. Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens produced only the most basic food crops. But the paradox is that Scottish professional gardeners at this time were highly prized and sought after all over the world. And by the eve of the First World War Scottish cottage gardeners were raising flowers, fruit and a wide range of vegetables, and celebrating their successes at innumerable flower shows. This book delves into the lives of farm servants, labourers, weavers, miners and other workers living in the countryside, to discover not only what vegetables, fruit and flowers they grew, and how they did it, but also how poverty, insecurity and long and arduous working days shaped their gardens. Workers' cottage gardens were also expected to comply with the needs of landowners, farmers and employers and with their expectations of the industrious cottager. But not all the gardens were muddy cabbage and potato patches and not all the gardeners were ignorant or unenthusiastic. The book also tells the stories of the keen gardeners who revelled in their pretty plots, raised prize exhibits for village shows and, in a few cases, found gardening to be a stepping-stone to scientific exploration.

Author : Mackay Sheila Mackay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781474470513

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Early Scottish Gardens by Mackay Sheila Mackay Pdf

What did early Scottish gardens look like? How did these gardens relate to the house and how did passing time affect their development? Where did the plant stock come from: herbs, shrubs, annuals and perennials, from the thistle to the rose? Did the gardens match the richly embellished interiors of Scots aristocrats and merchants, particularly after the Reformation? Evocative and tantalising remains of 'missing gardens' such as earthworks, stone walls, doocots, date stones, terracing, traceries of paths, sundials, a few ancient yews, and gardens themselves - Culross, Edzell, Pitmedden, Kinross -fire the imagination as Sheila Mackay guides the reader on a personal tour of the 16th, 17th and 18th-century gardens of Scotland.Contrary to popular belief within British garden history, designed landscapes have played a vital role in the lives of aspiring Scots from the 16th century, with paintings from the time depicting elaborate gardens to match houses and interiors that reflected status, wealth and a sense of self-esteem. In her exploration of these gardens - from Arthur's Seat in 1500 to The Hermitage in 1750 - Sheila Mackay reveals the dramatic developments that occurred during this period.This is a history peopled with the characters of the time, and includes extracts from songs, poems, and paintings of gardens throughout the period. Imaginative reconstructions of gardens for the people of the time - a 16th-century garden for the calligrapher Esther Inglis and a 17th-century landscape for the portrait painter George Jamesone - and the creative re-design of the ground of the Pleasaunce at Edzell Castle in light of contemporary European developments enhance the sense of the inspired designs of the time.An evocative picture is painted of these gardens and it is hoped that this will inspire the reader to make their own distinctive maps and undertake their own explorations of the gardens of Scotland.Key Features:*Illustrated with over 90 photograph

Author : MAUREEN M MEIKLE
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781291518009

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The Scottish People 1490-1625 by MAUREEN M MEIKLE Pdf

The Scottish People, 1490-1625 is one of the most comprehensive texts ever written on Scottish History. All geographical areas of Scotland are covered from the Borders, through the Lowlands to the Gàidhealtachd and the Northern Isles. The chapters look at society and the economy, Women and the family, International relations: war, peace and diplomacy, Law and order: the local administration of justice in the localities, Court and country: the politics of government, The Reformation: preludes, persistence and impact, Culture in Renaissance Scotland: education, entertainment, the arts and sciences, and Renaissance architecture: the rebuilding of Scotland. In many past general histories there was a relentless focus upon the elite, religion and politics. These are key features of any medieval and early modern history books, but The Scottish People looks at less explored areas of early-modern Scottish History such as women, how the law operated, the lives of everyday folk, architecture, popular belief and culture.

Author : Humm Louisa Humm
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474455282

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Architecture of Scotland, 1660-1750 by Humm Louisa Humm Pdf

This architectural survey covers one of Scotland's most important periods of political and architectural change when mainstream European classicism became embedded as the cultural norm. Interposed between the decline of 'the Scottish castle' and its revival as Scotch Baronial architecture, the contributors consider both private and public/civic architecture. They showcase the architectural reflections of a Scotland finding its new elites by providing new research, analysing paradigms such as Holyrood and Hamilton Palace, as well as external reference points such as Paris tenements, Roman precedents and English parallels. Typologically, the book is broad in scope, covering the architecture and design of country estate and also the urban scene in the era before Edinburgh New Town. Steps decisively away from the 'Scottish castle' genre of architectureContextualises the work of Scotland's first well-documented grouping of major architects - including Sir William Bruce, Mr James Smith, James Gibbs and the Adam dynastyDocuments the architectural developments of a transformational period in Scottish history Beautifully illustrated throughout with 300 colour illustrations a

Author : Michael Bath
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004364066

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Emblems in Scotland by Michael Bath Pdf

Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in this ground-breaking, richly illustrated book Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs in Scotland address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations.

Author : Herbert Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1332163637

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Scottish Gardens by Herbert Maxwell Pdf

Excerpt from Scottish Gardens: Being a Representative Selection of Different Types, Old and New About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ian Gow
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 1845133935

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Scotland's Lost Houses by Ian Gow Pdf

Since 1945 more than 200 of the most noted houses in Scotland have been lost, whether to fire, rot, or demolition. Fortunately, photographs were taken of many of these great structures both prior to and during their destruction. Collected here are images of 20 of the most important lost Scottish houses, among them Hamilton Palace, Rosneath, Balbardie, Amisfield, Gordon Castle, Guisachan, Dunglass, and Millearne. These images provide a fitting testimony to architectural masterpieces from a variety of eras and—in cases such as that or Murthly—offer a painstaking and heartbreaking record of their unfortunate demise.

Author : Joanna Geyer-Kordesch,Donald Smith
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781910022320

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Why Gardens Matter by Joanna Geyer-Kordesch,Donald Smith Pdf

So many gardening books tell you what to plant and where and when. But how often do they tell you to just sit and enjoy them? And when you do, you can find yourself thinking of things in a different way.With an exceptional academic career in natural history and medicine, writer Joanna Geyer-Kordesch found 'reflection, consolation and healing' in the soothing, healing powers of gardens after suffering from a major stroke. Sharing profound reflections on how gardening has helped her regenerate, Why Gardens Matter is as enlightening as it is inspirational. With contributions from Donald Smith, this is a powerful plea for us to reflect on our gardens and to acknowledge the life-affirming values of our green spaces.

Author : Herbert Maxwell
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342073044

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Scottish Gardens by Herbert Maxwell Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Suki Urquhart
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Gardening
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126891030

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The Scottish Gardener by Suki Urquhart Pdf

This book is a celebration of the diversity of Scottish gardens and gardeners, past and present.

Author : Scotland's Gardens Scheme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 090154938X

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Scotland's Gardens Scheme 2023 Guidebook by Scotland's Gardens Scheme Pdf

Author : G. Allan Little
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCAL:B4320987

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Scotland's Gardens by G. Allan Little Pdf

Author : Judy Riley
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788854962

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Tyninghame by Judy Riley Pdf

For many people, Tyninghame on the beautiful East Lothian coast means beaches, sea birds and salt marshes. But this place on the southern boundary of the Firth of Forth was once an important monastic site, the burial place of St Baldred and later a bishop's palace that eventually became the seat of the earls of Haddington. In the early eighteenth century, its landscape was dramatically changed by a young woman, Lady Helen Hope and her husband, Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington. The church, the house, the gardens and surroundings have undergone many transformations since they lived here, but somehow their vision has remained intact and unspoiled. Judy Riley reveals a fascinating story, weaving together the different threads – archaeological, historical, religious and horticultural – which make up this special place in a corner of East Lothian.