News - The Society for Landscape Studies

Norfolk Landscape History Day 26th July 2025

Jeremy Lake2025-07-29T09:32:43+01:009 July 2025|

A NAHRG event in association with the Centre of East Anglian Studies and in tribute to Tom Williamson (Emeritus Professor of Landscape History, UEA)

Conference: Sacred and profane: the landscapes of Kent

Jeremy Lake2025-07-09T12:29:41+01:009 October 2024|

The Society for Landscape Studies’ 2024 Conference, that was held on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th September in Canterbury, has been deemed a great success.

Short Course at the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub

office_general2024-10-09T10:38:21+01:0024 December 2023|

Mark Forrest of VCH has brought this series of workshops, relevant to local historians, to our attention

Conference videos now on YouTube

office_general2022-06-28T12:16:03+01:0028 June 2022|

Conference Videos The Society for Landscape Studies Annual Conference and Field Meeting 2022 is called ‘A Tale of Two Cities: Old and New Sarum’, held on Saturday ...

The landscapes of England

Anthony Robinson2022-05-31T15:40:58+01:001 May 2022|

England’s 159 National Character Areas (NCA) are areas of distinct environmental character mapped at a broad scale of 1:250,000.

Reservoirs for canals

Anthony Robinson2022-05-31T15:54:04+01:0028 February 2022|

LANDSCAPE HISTORY ABSTRACT The development of early reservoirs to supply water to arterial canals in England and Wales Alice Harvey-Fishenden and Neil Macdonald Reservoirs change ...

Fens and Rivers in Lincolnshire

Anthony Robinson2022-05-31T16:04:06+01:0017 October 2021|

EDITORIAL Report on our 2021 online conference On Saturday 16 October 2021, we held our first-ever online conference, organised jointly with the University of Lincoln. The ...

Welcome to our new website

Anthony Robinson2022-06-28T12:22:59+01:001 August 2021|

EDITORIAL Landscape study: from small-scale to large-scale Welcome to the new website of the Society for Landscape Studies. We hope you like it. Here you will ...

History on the Ground by Maurice Beresford (1957)

Anthony Robinson2025-07-23T10:27:05+01:0026 July 2021|

The minimum equipment is an affection for the landscape of town and field; a good pair of boots; and the firm determination that study of documents and exploration of the landscape shall be conducted side by side, and that neither branch of the enquiry shall be self-sufficient