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Discovering the landscape: cut it out!

Posted on June 29, 2017 by merl

Written by Claire Wooldridge, Project Librarian Over the past few years, my colleague Jen (Landscape Institute Archivist) and I have […]

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Discovering the landscape: lost landscapes of Michael Brown

Posted on June 1, 2017 by merl

In this post Amber Roberts, recipient of MERL’s landscape academic engagement bursary talks about her work on our Michael Brown […]

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Discovering the Landscape: Student bursary winners announced

Posted on March 30, 2017 by merl

We are delighted to announce that Moa Carlsson and Tianyi Jiang have been awarded Landscape Student Travel Bursaries. The purpose […]

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Discovering the Landscape: Book now for a place on FOLAR’s Landscape Education study day

Posted on February 17, 2017 by merl

Landscape Architecture and Management Education in the UK: past present and future What? This year’s FOLAR (Friends of the Landscape […]

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Discovering the Landscape: Post-War Landscape Architecture project awarded Academic Engagement Bursary

Posted on December 15, 2016 by merl

We are delighted to announce that Amber Roberts has been awarded our Landscape Academic Engagement Bursary. Amber will be using […]

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Discovering the Landscape: how to use our collections in your research

Posted on November 24, 2016 by merl

Are you an undergraduate, postgraduate, independent researcher or at school? Are you studying history, geography, architecture, environmental science, ecology or […]

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Discovering the Landscape: Preparation, progress and preservation – 3 years on

Posted on September 22, 2016 by merl

Plans, papers, press cuttings and publications…. we have spent a busy three years working on the Landscape Institute collections here […]

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Discovering the Landscape: landscape research bursaries available

Posted on August 25, 2016 by merl

This year, thanks to generous funding from the Landscape Institute, we are pleased to offer bursaries to encourage use and […]

Posted in Collections, Discovering the landscape, Press Releases | Tagged academic, archives, bursaries, collections, Landscape Institute, library, Museum of English Rural Life, research, student | 1 Comment |

Discovering the Landscape: From London traffic to an Italian Prisoner of War camp

Posted on July 28, 2016 by merl

Over the course of a large scale cataloguing project, many hundreds of items pass through your hands.  Since acquiring the […]

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Discovering the Landscape: Dublin of the Future (1922)

Posted on June 23, 2016 by merl

This post highlights Dublin of the future: new town plan by Patrick Abercrombie, Sydney Kelly and Arthur Kelly (University of Liverpool […]

Posted in Collections, Discovering the landscape, Focus on Collections | Tagged archives, Dublin, landscape, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Institute, library, rare books | Leave a comment |

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