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Rosemary Hill, 5 December 1991

Gertrude Jekyll 
by Sally Festing.
Viking, 323 pp., £17.99, October 1991, 0 670 82788 6
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People’s Parks 
by Hazel Conway.
Cambridge, 287 pp., £49.50, August 1991, 0 521 39070 2
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The History of Garden Design: The Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day 
edited by Monique Mosser and Georges Teyssot.
Thames and Hudson, 543 pp., £45, May 1991, 0 500 01511 2
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... her clients the exact obverse of what was available to then social inferiors is made clear by Hazel Conway in her excellent People and Parks. For park designers the task was not to integrate their work with the surrounding landscape but to provide an even more illusionistic sense of escape by masking off the city and, by such devices as serpentine ...

Everywhere and Nowhere

Lorraine Daston: Climate Proxies, 7 May 2026

Climate by Proxy: A History of Scientific Reconstructions of the Past and the Future 
by Melissa Charenko.
Chicago, 248 pp., £28, November 2025, 978 0 226 84410 7
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... successive settlements on the site of Troy by numbering them consecutively in order of excavation. Hazel trees flourish in temperate zones, and the Swedish geologist Gunnar Andersson inferred from the distribution of fossilised hazelnuts that parts of Sweden had once been significantly warmer (even after the last ice age) than they are today. But how long ...

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