Landscape HistoryPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2023.2196139
J. Burchardt
{"title":"Environments of Identity. Agricultural community, work and concepts of local in Yorkshire, 1918–2018 (The White Horse Press, Winwick, 2022)","authors":"J. Burchardt","doi":"10.1080/01433768.2023.2196139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2023.2196139","url":null,"abstract":"end so save Parliament Hill Fields, as well as many commons whose names will be familiar (Wandsworth, Tooting, Barnes, and Mousehold Heath in Norwich). Octavia Hill also enabled the National Trust to acquire attractive areas in Kent and Surrey that had become accessible by train from London. While Beatrix Potter protected the Lake District landscape, including aesthetic considerations around conserving its small farms (William Wordsworth is referenced, naturally), Pauline Dower and Sylvia Sayer directly addressed land use conflicts. Dower was concerned with defining a Northumberland National Park/ Kielder Forest, and Sayer developing, and protecting, Dartmoor National Park. It is most gratifying that Hadrian’s Wall forms one focus for the Northumberland National Park! However, we read about the dispute of including Kielder Forest within a National Park setting, and eventually it would be designated a ‘Forest Park’, the modern ‘Kielder Water and Forest Park’; noting the area would subsequently have its very own reservoir in Kielder Water. We are reminded of those very twentieth-century conflicts between local government, national parks authorities, state agencies (notably the Forestry Commission), voluntary bodies, and agricultural interests in the English uplands. Sylvia Sawyer’s concerns were similar. If the battle in Northumberland concerned agricultural development and afforestation, her Dartmoor concerns were similar, with added military training areas and reservoir development. Chair of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, her own battles included opposition to the creation of the Meldon reservoir, although many others had been created. Sylvia Sawyer opposed the advance of commercial forestry and helped to restrict military training on the north side of the Moor from the 1970s, thereby improving access. She furthermore dismissed arguments about whether the landscape is ‘natural or man-made’, a prescient stance! The final chapter references other writers in the field, particularly Marion Shoard, the contemporary Cumbrian sheep farmer James Rebanks, but sadly not John Sheail. Providing context is a strength of this work. Influences discussed include Liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Unitarian, and Anglican. Even if one subscribes to the Great Man Theory of History (sic) espoused by Thomas Carlyle, the omission of women is but one elephant in the room. Matthew Kelly effectively compensates this by dissecting not only the attitudes of the time, but also their predilections towards authority, ownership, political and religious background, and naturally issues around class. It is interestingly toe-curling to read of Hill’s attitudes to the ‘working class’ versus her perceived needs of the more affluent members of society. More than that, Sylvia Sayer, who held a title, expressed a certain snootiness to the dwellers within ‘Subtopia’, a pejorative term that apparently refers to the worst aspects of (cluttered) suburban development and to its occupants","PeriodicalId":39639,"journal":{"name":"Landscape History","volume":"44 1","pages":"151 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42126541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Approaches to Local History. Warwickshire history and its historians (The Boydell Press, 2022)","authors":"D. Hooke","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv2n4w5xt","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2n4w5xt","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 12, John Martin, Joane Serrano, Jaqueline Nowakowski and Dominica Williamson reflect on sustainable development goals, and the experience of traversing two heritage areas, Ifugao Rice Terrace landscape in the Philippines (a World Heritage Site) and Carwynnen Quoit in Cornwall, UK (adjacent to a World Heritage site). They suggest that walking trails is a way of connecting with the heritage of the landscape and participants own sense of place. In Chapter 13, Daniele Valisena writes a ‘walking ethnography of place’ on terrils (coal slag heaps, now home to a wide variety of plants and animals). The terrils are inherently unstable elements in the landscape, from the lives of miners who worked them, to the slag heaps themselves which are stabilised by planted woodland, and the surrounding area which experiences frequent mine shaft collapse and a local microclimate. Valisena explores how moving through the landscape is part of thinking about it in a less anthropocentric way. In Chapter 14, Maria Piekarska explores Jewish-Israeli relationships with hiking through the Martyr’s Trail through a forest planted symbolically in 1951, and the role of storytelling, memorialisation and the relatively modern nature of the landscape, notwithstanding traces of pre-1948 Palestinian villages. In Chapter 15, Faidon Moudopoulos Athanasiou and Ionas Sklavounos write about participatory project working in the landscape reconstructing kalderimia (cobbled pathways) with the help of a diverse group of craftspeople, academics, students and local people in Zagori, north-west Greece. They and their participants were embedded in the landscape in a practical way, encountering past through objects and bringing new interpretations to the past through their findings and conversations. In Chapter 16 Benjamin Richards discusses movement heritage as including the more-than-human, based on his research in south-eastern Norway, in an area where post-industrial sites are being reintegrated into a landscape of trails and paths. Richards covers themes such as the value (current, future, past and perceived) of paths, the meanings of movement in the landscape and ideas such as desire and drift, as well as the status of paths, contrasting rights of way (e.g. England) with the right to roam (e.g. Norway) and the effect this has on paths and movement through landscape. The book as a whole constitutes an eye-opening exploration of the different meanings of pathways. It is an ambitious book, which covers a wide range of topics, and will be of interest to many landscape historians, at least in part. In addition to being available as a paperback, it is also available open-access online through JSTOR, which is ideal for reading individual chapters or sections.","PeriodicalId":39639,"journal":{"name":"Landscape History","volume":"44 1","pages":"155 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49478877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landscape HistoryPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2022.2146349
Bob Silvester
{"title":"Managing for Posterity: the Norfolk gentry and their estates c.1450–1700","authors":"Bob Silvester","doi":"10.1080/01433768.2022.2146349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2022.2146349","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39639,"journal":{"name":"Landscape History","volume":"43 1","pages":"145 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42515523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landscape HistoryPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2022.2146342
Bob Silvester
{"title":"Fen and Sea: the landscapes of south-east Lincolnshire AD 500–1700","authors":"Bob Silvester","doi":"10.1080/01433768.2022.2146342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2022.2146342","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39639,"journal":{"name":"Landscape History","volume":"43 1","pages":"143 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46701614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landscape HistoryPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2022.2146351
P. Stamper
{"title":"Chiswick House Gardens: 300 years of creation and recreation","authors":"P. Stamper","doi":"10.1080/01433768.2022.2146351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2022.2146351","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39639,"journal":{"name":"Landscape History","volume":"43 1","pages":"146 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48331396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landscape HistoryPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2022.2146345
Liam Lewis
{"title":"Landscape in Middle English Romance: the medieval imagination and the natural world","authors":"Liam Lewis","doi":"10.1080/01433768.2022.2146345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2022.2146345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39639,"journal":{"name":"Landscape History","volume":"43 1","pages":"144 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42041730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Landscape HistoryPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2022.2143752
S. Mahdizadeh, S. Walker, Zahra Karimian, L. Rajendran
{"title":"Royal Gardens in Republican Iran: a case study of the Golestan Palace Garden, Tehran","authors":"S. Mahdizadeh, S. Walker, Zahra Karimian, L. Rajendran","doi":"10.1080/01433768.2022.2143752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2022.2143752","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 1925, the rise of Reza Shah Pahlavi’s regime led to the deliberate destruction of Qajar gardens (1785 to 1925), most of which were converted into military bases. A limited number, such as the Golestan Palace Garden, were partly preserved. However, there had been mass destruction of ‘unsolicited’ and ‘outdated’ buildings by the Qajars and the denigration of religious rituals. Following the fall of the monarchy and establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, the Golestan Palace Garden’s meaning and function changed, and all traditions associated with the monarchy were abandoned to enforce the ideologies of post-revolutionary garden management. Through an in-depth case study, this paper narrates the transformations which have occurred in the physical and material fabric along with symbolic and social dimensions of royal gardens. Although the garden exists its rich symbolism has been rendered impotent to respond to different needs of various states. The renovation of the Golestan Palace Garden has not been appropriately completed even after it was registered as a World Heritage Site in 2013. Hence, this paper intends to question the museum-like conservation approach, which negates the social facts and meanings and is limited to the restoration of materials. The paper concludes that the revival of intangible heritage is fundamental to invigorate the garden in question.","PeriodicalId":39639,"journal":{"name":"Landscape History","volume":"43 1","pages":"119 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44132952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}