In this episode, host Victoria Barlow is joined by guest Susannah Lyon-Whaley to discuss the royal links with early 17th century gardening practices and the A Queen's Book of Flowers exhibition running until the end of June in York. Listen in to be transported into the charming landscape of queen Henrietta Maria’s England and the exotic plants that were being cultivated there.

For more information on the exhibition visit the webpage: https://susannahlyon-whale.wixsite.com/queensbookofflowers

Guest Bio:

Susannah Lyon-Whaley is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow (UKRI-guaranteed) at the University of York. She completed a PhD in Art History at the University of Auckland. She has published on Stuart queens and is the editor of Floral Culture and the Tudor and Stuart Court (Amsterdam University Press). Her new project is titled ‘Observing, Consuming, Engaging, Appropriating Nature (OCEAN): Queens Consorts and Ecologies of Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Britain.' As part of this project she is working on an exhibition for the Festival of Ideas, which is the subject of this episode’s talk.

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