An Almost Impossible Thing: a talk by Fiona Davison about the radical lives of Britain’s pioneering women gardeners.

 

Date: Saturday May 18^th 2024, 2pm

Venue: Stony Stratford Library

 

An Almost Impossible Thing follows the fortunes of six women gardeners in the years before the First World War, including their battles to change expectations of what women gardeners could do. It examines their lives in the context of suffragism, collectivism and Empire.

 Fiona Davison is Head of Libraries and Exhibitions at the Royal Horticultural Society and has also written The Hidden Horticulturalists: The Working-Class Men Who Shaped Britain’s Gardens.

Paperback copies of An Almost Impossible Thing will be available for purchase and signing.

 Tickets: available in Stony Stratford Library from 30^th April.

 The talk will be followed by refreshments including homemade cake.