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John Simpson Memorial Lecture 2025
Professor James Hitchmough will give this year’s lecture at 6.45pm on Wednesday 12th November in TC001 main lecture theatre Francis Close campus. All welcome to this free public lecture.
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WALKING GLOUCESTERSHIRE with IVOR GURNEY
Eleanor Rawling gave this year’s John Simpson Memorial lecture last Tuesday. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a local poet, born in Gloucester, was gassed in the first world war and suffered long afterwards spending much time in mental asylums. Despite this he never lost…
John Simpson Memorial Lecture: WALKING GLOUCESTERSHIRE WITH IVOR GURNEY
ELEANOR RAWLING is giving this year’s lecture on Tuesday 12th November at 6.45pm in the large lecture theatre TC001 on Francis Close campus, University of Gloucestershire. A geographer, educationist and writer of two books on the local poet Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Rawling is this year’s guest…
Bees make honey
But there’s lots of kinds of bees that aren’t honey bees and Harry and Lorraine from Harry’s Bees told us all about them. There are more than 20,000 species of bees in the world and, unlike the iconic ‘social’ honeybee,…
Botanical Society: bee and honey talk
Tuesday 13th February 5pm CL220. Free honey tasting. Watch bees in a windowed hive. Pollination and hive care explained. Members free. Non-members £2.
Rhyzophyllia and the soil food web: a Botanical Society talk given by Eddie Bailey on 14th November
“After just one pre-winter of mulching, I noticed an incredible difference in the structure of my soil. Moving mulch to one side ahead of planting plugs in April I saw a ‘storm’ of microarthropods on the soil surface. And worms!…
Celebrating rainfall through design with Bob Bray
Bob Bray gave this year’s John Simpson memorial lecture last Tuesday. It was delivered at a leisurely but satisfyingly comprehensible tempo, tracing the history of water management from the ‘Great Stink’ lowpoint of 1858, through the Victorian ‘engineered’ solutions of…
REWILDING WORKSHOP SUCCESS
Last week’s three-day workshop explored the possibilities of rewilding one of Cheltenham’s green corridors – the former elevated Honeybourne railway line, now a cycle and public footpath linking areas to the north of Cheltenham with the current mainline station Cheltenham…
Lecture: Hal Moggridge
INNOVATIVE Landscape Lectures Series: Being a Landscape Architect Tickets, Thu 17 Oct 2019 at 18:00 | Eventbrite This lecture will be conducted with a precersor interview ‘Yesterday Once More’ by Ying Li (李滢) View the poster About the speaker Hal…