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This lecture, a companion to the 2024 exhibition of the same name at London’s Garden Museum, will focus on and celebrate the evanescence of the metropolis’s vast and varied garden legacy. Noted historian and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan will examine gardens that range from the capital’s humble allotments and defunct squares to amateur botanical gardens, princely pleasure grounds, artists’ gardens, and private menageries. 

Today there are so many records easily available online that it can be tempting to quickly glance at a record, save it, and move on to the next one. In this online lecture, Senior Genealogist Rhonda R. McClure will provide strategies for finding often-overlooked details in records that can provide clues about your ancestors’ lives and the times that they lived in. 

Embroidered coats of arms were among the most prolific and enduring forms of schoolgirl needlework in eighteenth-century Boston. Not only do these objects demonstrate the skill and dedication of their makers, but as examples of genealogical material culture, heraldic needlework makes clear that young colonial women were integral to the articulation and preservation of their family history.