Robert Penson Garden History Lecture 2025

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This year's Penson Lecturer is the historian, consultant and author, Dr Kate Feluś.
  • Date 24 June 2025 - 5.00 p.m. - 24 June 2025 - 6.00 p.m.
  • Location Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College

Dr Kate Feluś is an experienced researcher and advisor on all aspects of the restoration, planning and management of historic parks and gardens. For over two decades, Dr Feluś has worked on diverse projects from Elizabethan water gardens to Edwardian seaside parks.

In 2016, Dr Feluś published her first monograph, The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden, which was published in 2016, to coincide with the tercentenary celebrations for ‘Capability’ Brown. It was featured in the FT Books of the Year. She is currently working on a study of the remarkable women who have created British gardens (over the last 300 years, right up to the present day) and the great designers with whom they joined forces. It will be published by Yale University Press.

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This lecture is open to the public and is free to attend. Please register your interest and reserve a seat via Eventbrite.

The Penson Lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Garden Quad Reception Room to which all are welcome. The reception will finish at around 7 PM.