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In 1789, as revolution broke out in France, court life revived in England, with grandiose celebrations for George III’s recovery. A thousand or more would attend levers or drawing rooms , causing ‘crowding and squeezing’, ‘pushing and scrambling’ in St James’s Palace. Lines of courtiers’ carriages stretching from beyond Oxford street attracted admiring spectators. in 1821 his friend Walter Scott described the coronation of George IV as ‘beyond measure magnificent’. Governments considered control of the royal household essential, for example in the regency crises of 1788 and 1811–12, and the Bedchamber Question of 1839. The Tory leader Robert Peel refused to be Prime Minister, when the Queen would not dismiss her Whig ladies in waiting. His rival lord Melbourne went almost every day to court, always sitting beside the Queen at dinner. For her part the Queen believed: ‘I must be surrounded by my Court. I cannot keep alone’. Britain remained a court society as well as a parliamentary monarchy.

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The Greening family flourished throughout the 18th century. With an impressive nursery, on the Isleworth/Brentford border, they supplied plants, trees and bulbs and undertook landscape design and maintenance contract for the royal family and wealthy clients. No business archive survives but payments for their work appear in the records of numerous estates in England and Wales. Val Bott’s study of the nursery gardeners in parishes along the Thames valley west of London has been shared in short essays on individual families. This wider study provides the context for understanding and recognising the significance of the Greenings.

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We tend to think of cemeteries as Victorian, but their origins lie much earlier. There are two key phases: first, urban growth around 1700 demanded new burial provision and a pioneering wave of Anglican burial grounds started to join the cemeteries of dissenters and Jews. Later, influenced by Père Lachaise, new cemeteries were opened by private enterprise from the 1820s. The Georgian churchyard tradition supplied many of the tomb types, ensuring a strong element of continuity. The resulting funeral landscapes like Kensal Green (opened 1833) represent some of the key achievements of William IV’s reign. This talk is based on a forthcoming book on British cemeteries, co-written with Brent Elliott, to be published by Liverpool University Press.

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