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The perpetual infamy of Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Madame Lucile
Belfast's Titanic museum places couple before never-ending tribunal of public opinion
Jul 23
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Michael Gilson
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A Royal crisis amid the beauty of a garden on the hill
Discovery deep in the archives tells an unknown story of a famous garden
Jul 9
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Michael Gilson
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Private: Keep Out - the signs that tell us this green and pleasant land is not ours
Rights of way across the English countryside are still obscured, hidden and forbidden. It needs to change
Jul 2
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Michael Gilson
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June 2025
Descent into madness on a quest for opera in the Amazon jungle
The re-release of Burden of Dreams brings back searing memories of the mighty river
Jun 25
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Michael Gilson
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Descent into madness on a quest for opera in the Amazon jungle
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Arcadia is a place of rural bliss for some, dispossession for others
Sir Philip Sidney's epic prose evokes an antiquarian paradise. It's based on a lie
Jun 18
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Michael Gilson
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Arcadia is a place of rural bliss for some, dispossession for others
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The flotsam and jetsam of memory revived by a forgotten river landscape
A walk into the past and present on the foreshore of Upnor on the River Medway
Jun 11
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Michael Gilson
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The flotsam and jetsam of memory revived by a forgotten river landscape
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When the fragrance of peonies cannot mask the stench of the slave trade
Two beautiful landscapes have one thing in common - a shared history we cannot always ignore
Jun 4
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Michael Gilson
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May 2025
Murder, intrigue and sex: the Draughtsman draws a garden for our imagination
Peter Greenaway's brilliant 1982 film foregrounds landscape like no other
May 28
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Michael Gilson
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Murder, intrigue and sex: the Draughtsman draws a garden for our imagination
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Forget Chelsea, there was once a bigger, more radical garden show in town
The London Gardens Exhibition drew huge crowds to see working class creations
May 20
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Michael Gilson
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Forget Chelsea, there was once a bigger, more radical garden show in town
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Grow Your Own: How the humble allotment holder saw off starvation and the potato queue
The forced handing over of land to the poor in World War One saved lives. But what of today?
May 14
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Michael Gilson
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Grow Your Own: How the humble allotment holder saw off starvation and the potato queue
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Death on the moor: Lives claimed by the landscape prove how little we know of nature
Mystery of man found high up on Indian's Head revive mythologies of the wild
May 7
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Michael Gilson
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Death on the moor: Lives claimed by the landscape prove how little we know of nature
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April 2025
Community lawnmowers, cut price seeds and tomato plight: words on a page found in an attic tell a long lost garden story
A year ago this week my book Behind the Privet Hedge was published. I’ve been flogging its story ever since
Apr 30
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Michael Gilson
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Community lawnmowers, cut price seeds and tomato plight: words on a page found in an attic tell a long lost garden story
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