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Annual Symposium with the Friends of the Landscape Archive Reading (FOLAR)

Landscape of Public Health
November 2 @ 11:00 am - 4:30 pm

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Booking required (link coming soon)

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Date:
November 2
Time:
11:00 am - 4:30 pm
Cost:
Ticket prices vary
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Venue

The Museum of English Rural Life
The Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road
Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX United Kingdom
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The Chelsea Physic Garden in London

The symposium is devoted to an examination and discussion of the public health benefits of gardens and the wider landscape, from the gardens and farms of nineteenth century “lunatic asylums”, to municipal provision of healthcare in interwar Bermondsey which ranged from tuberculosis gardens, to street beautification to playgrounds and parks, to the landscape of NHS hospitals from 1947, to Maggie’s gardens and then the experience and value of public parks during the Covid-19 pandemic and  finally to the future.