Silver Birch from a back garden in Nottinghamshire. Once the perch for passing corvids, now a stump. Trees of Beeston was sparked by the cutting down of this tree, to record and regard the arboreal architectures of the everyday urban landscape.
Trees of Beeston began as an arts and performance informed psychogeographical project to celebrate the arboreal entities that enrich the landscapes and lives of humans and animals living, working, or visiting Beeston in Nottinghamshire, UK.
Between May and October 2018, Dr Jo Norcup connected with a small group of Beestonian tree-appreciators under the moniker ‘The Beeston Tree Appreciation Society’ to begin to map and record their memories connected with particular trees in the locale.
Since then, accounts of trees in the area have been recorded and written about in the independent publication, The Beestonian. Publishing accounts and reflections of specific trees takes in the local geography, natural and human history and cultural significance of trees to daily and seasonal lives, and accounts for ways in which readers might be encouraged to adopt more sustainable ways of living with and growing trees in their gardens and wider community.
Geography Workshop’s Virtual Scholarly Retreats 2021 #GW_VSR2021
Geography Workshop Productions presents 5 (not 3 due to popular demand!) x 2-day virtual scholarly retreats across the months of May, June and July to facilitate collegial virtual space for colleagues…
Geography Workshop – a revamp and re-launch
Geography Workshop Productions was established in September 2015 as a space through which critically and creatively curious productions could be made in collaborations with other pro…
HGRG Virtual Writing Retreat 2020
HGRG Virtual Writing Retreat 2020. Happy 2020 all! First job for Geography Workshop this new decade has been to organise the Historical Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society’…
Trees of Beeston #5 Springtime – For the love of hedges and “weeds”.
“ Spring is here … and they can’t stop you enjoying it. This is a satisfying reflection. How many a time have I stood watching the toads mating, or a pair of hares having a boxing match in the y…
Trees Of Beeston #4: The E.U. Tree circle and Yew Green Man sculptures of Dovecote Park.
It seems only fitting in a theme issue based on Boston’s global connections that the Trees of Beeston column takes space to consider how the natural world, its biological systems and lifeforms, can g…
Trees of Beeston #3: The wonders of the Evergreen and the Scots Pine of Beeston Parish Churchyard (Styring Street/Chillwell Road).
For this evergreen seasonal column of Trees of Beeston, I want to celebrate those arboreal wonders that exist in our streets and gardens, public parks and along train-trac…
Women Who Walk (BBC Radio 4)
Throughout 2018, Dr Jo Norcup has been working with Michael Umney of Resonance FM Productions in turning a programme pitch based on the three ‘Er Outdoors programmes originally made and broadcast on…
Landscapes of Detectorists – Geography Workshop at the Royal Geographical Society’s annual conference
Geographers strike gold in their study of hit BBC comedy, Detectorists. Cardiff University will host the four-day Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institu…
Trees of Beeston #2 Beeston’s tree heritage and The White Lion Linden/Lime Trees.
Beeston Tree Heritage “A Culture is no better than its woods” W. H Auden In this heritage themed issue of Trees Of Beeston (TOB), I want to introduce the importance of tr…
Trees of Beeston #1 ‘The Truffula Trees’ of King Street.
Trees of Beeston #1 “The Truffula Trees” (Silver Birches) of King Street. By Dr Jo Norcup “I speak for the trees, for they have no tongues” – The Lorax In his chil…
Trees Of Beeston
Trees of Beeston is an arts and performance informed psychogeographical project that celebrates the arboreal entities that enrich the landscapes and lives of humans and animals living, working, or …
Demanding the Impossible: A Strike Zine – the Geo-Zine Scene and Nottingham Geography Strike Zine
Geographies of dissent are of particular interest to us folks here at Geography Workshop. The material cultures of dissent created by necessity to facilitate discussions and ideas that are otherwise …
Archive Afterlives: Digitising CIGE
29th March 2018 marks the launch of CIGE’s Archive Afterlives project. 35 years since the launch of Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education (CIGE), a journal of the Association for Curri…
Landscapes of Detectorists
Dr Innes Keighren, Jo Norcup and Geography Workshop are very pleased to announce the line up of the Landscapes of Detectorists session to be held at the Royal Geographical Society’s 2018 annual confe…
2016 / 2017: A memorable first year in the life of GW
Festive seasonal greetings to one and all. Here at GW towers we have been taking stock of the past year, which has been our first year of shoe-string but vital life. There have been so many chang…