The next meeting will be held in Saffron Walden Library
When: Wednesday 10th December 2025
Time: 7:30 pm
Subject: Gardening and Reading in Tudor and Stuart England,
Speaker: Dr Grace Murray
Details: England’s printing presses churned out dozens of instructional manuals or ‘how-to’ books for the aspiring gardener or herbalist. This talk explores why these books were enduringly popular with Tudor and Stuart readers by turning to surviving copies with notes scribbled in the margins, and shows that learning to garden was just one of many reasons why people read their how-to books.
The Speaker: Dr Grace Murray is a Lecturer in English Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, where she specialises in the history of reading in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Non-members are welcome, and there is no charge for admission. The Library has disabled access.