Tree Talks - Commemorating with Trees

Tree Talks; a series of lectures about our relationship with trees.

In this series of 4 inter-related talks, Yorkshire Gardens Trust members, Dr Jan Woudstra and Dr Camilla Allen from the University of Sheffield, explore various aspects of our relationship with trees.

This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions via the links below, or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 4 sessions at a cost of £16 via the link here. (Student rate for this individual session is £1.50 or for the entire course £6.)

Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and again a few hours before the talk. A link to the recorded session (available for 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

Week 1. Sep 7. Trees in the Urban Environment: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 2. Sep 14. The ‘Right to Plant’: a political history of roadside tree planting in the Netherlands: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 3. Sep 21. A Man of the Trees: the life of Richard St Barbe Baker (1889-1982): Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 4. Sep 28. Commemorating with Trees: three forms, three stories: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 4. Sep 28: Commemorating with Trees: three forms, three stories by Camilla Allen

Alongside her research on Richard St. Barbe Baker, Camilla has been exploring the act of commemoration through the planting or protection of trees in different sites around the world. In this talk she will weave together the story of Britain's three cathedrals of trees, California's Redwood groves, and some of Sheffield's street trees, all of which in some way or another have an association with commemorating the Great War. The trees in these three typologies will be explored in relation to their spatial, symbolic and spiritual context, as well as opening a discussion about the long term care for both the trees and places.

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Dr Camilla Allen is a landscape and environmental historian with an interest in how certain places, people and events shape and reflect our relationship with trees. Her thesis was on the twentieth century forester and environmentalist Richard St. Barbe Baker and she is currently editing a collected volume with Dr Jan Woudstra, The Politics of Street Trees (Routledge, 2022).