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History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes Seminar. Further details for our Thursday term time seminars: www.history.ac.uk/seminar/history-g…

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Richly illustrated with her own sketches and handwriting, this book explores the life and work of Jane Colden, America's first woman botanist. 🔗 buff.ly/tobp92k 🗓️ 19 October 2026, 6-8pm 📍The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
📢 Applications are officially OPEN! We’re excited to launch our latest round of Fellowships, Prizes, and Bursaries ! Whether you're a early career scholar, or established historian, discover how our funding can support your research, travel, and publications. 🗓️ Apply: buff.ly/2aZE829
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Fellowships, Bursary and Prize Updates
Stay informed on the latest IHR funding opportunities. Visit our noticeboard for the most up-to-date bursary, fellowship, and prize announcements.
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The next seminar in our autumn series, on 22nd October, will be Sergio Monferrini's paper 'Pleasure for Body and Soul: The Gardens and Academy of Vitaliano VI Borromeo on Isola Bella'. This is an online only seminar, registration details below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Pleasure for Body and Soul: The Gardens and Academy of Vitaliano VI Borromeo on Isola Bella
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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We're excited to share our Nature Seminar Series for this term. All talks are online & in-person, followed by a drinks reception & often a booksigning, where you can chat to the author & others interested in the subject. We're looking forward to seeing you there! More info & to book below
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are pleased to announce the first seminar of our autumn series, on 8th October, with Curie Virág's paper on 'Aesthetic Pleasure as Moral Resistance: Self-Cultivation and Literati Gardens in Song Dynasty China'. This is a hybrid seminar, registration details below: @ihr.bsky.social
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Aesthetic Pleasure as Moral Resistance: Self-Cultivation and Literati Gardens in Song Dynasty China
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Our next seminar, on 11th June, is a paper on 'War and Peace - Early Eighteenth-Century ‘Personalised’ Military Gardens', with Jacqueline Edwards. This is a hybrid seminar. Our seminars are free and open to all, registration details below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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War and Peace - Early Eighteenth-Century ‘Personalised’ Military Gardens
History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes Seminar
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urbanparksgirl @urbanparksgirl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A spot of multifunctional #urbangreenspace. #suds
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The final seminar of the term, on 26th March, is a paper on 'Meanwhile Gardens: Looking Back over Fifty Years', with Clive Adams, Jose Crespo Martins and Rohan McCullough. This is a hybrid seminar. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Meanwhile Gardens: Looking Back over Fifty Years
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The next seminar in our winter series will be on 12 March, with Stephen Smith's paper, 'Highgate Cemetery: Demands on a Designed Landscape'. This will be a hybrid seminar. Our seminars are free, registration link below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Highgate Cemetery: Demands on a Designed Landscape
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We continue our winter seminar series on 26 February, with Moirika Reker's paper, 'Urban Fruits: The Public Orchard as a Bridge to the Landscape'. This is an online only seminar, please find registration details below. #gardenhistory #orchard @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Urban Fruits: The Public Orchard as a Bridge to the Landscape
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Calendar of IHR Research Training January to April 2026. All the details are in the web link in the body of the post.
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The next seminar in our winter series will be on 12 February, with Kalina Prelikj's paper, 'Fifteen Years of New York City’s High Line: A Closer Look at its Impact on Urban Design'. This is an online only seminar. #gardenhistory @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Fifteen Years of New York City’s High Line: A Closer Look at its Impact on Urban Design
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Join me online at 6pm on Wed 18 Feb to find out more about our unique Ambleside-based MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District (with full time & part time study options available)🍃📚 x.com/cumbriaengli...
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Dr Karin Schrader @karina42.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Exhibition | Gardens of Enlightenment, 1750–1800 enfilade18thc.com/2026/01/04/e... #C18th #garden #enlightenment #earlymodern
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Exhibition | Gardens of Enlightenment, 1750–1800
Opening in May at Versailles: Gardens of Enlightenment, 1750–1800 / Jardins des Lumières, 1750–1800 Grand Trianon and English Garden of the Petit Trianon, Château de Versailles, 5 May — 27 Se…
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The next seminar in our winter series will be on 29 January, with Laurence Pattacini's paper, 'Walking the River Edge: How Public Walks Enhanced the City’s Relationship with Water'. This will be a hybrid seminar. #gardenhistory @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Walking the River Edge: How Public Walks Enhanced the City’s Relationship with Water
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Registration is open for Ines Babnik's paper, 'Historic Gardens and the Future of Urban Greening: Testing Nature-based Solutions Across Time', on 15 January. Our seminars are free and open to all, please register via link below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Historic Gardens and the Future of Urban Greening: Testing Nature-based Solutions across Time
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Our term series, ‘Verdopolis: Green Space and the Urban Landscape’ commences on 15 January, with Ines Babnik's paper, 'Historic Gardens and the Future of Urban Greening: Testing Nature-based Solutions Across Time'. Registration opens 12 January. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Supported by the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes Seminar Supporters Group and Birkbeck Garden History Group .
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Many thanks for your positive and helpful feedback, which is much appreciated.
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Thoreau’s “Succession of Forest Trees” and the Challenge of Change, posting by Dan McKanan on the @harvardcswr.bsky.social site. "What if the future of forests depends less on human management than on our willingness to learn from other species?" cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/12...
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Thoreau’s “Succession of Forest Trees” and the Challenge of Change | Center for the Study of World Religions
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Anyone looking for a Christmas present idea? Our inspirational publication with 5 star reviews, 'Conversations in Garden History: New Research, New Ideas, New Approaches', is available in either paperback or kindle format, from www.amazon.co.uk/Conversation...
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Our final seminar of the autumn term, on 4 December, will be Deborah Chambers's paper, 'A Gift to the Community? Public Art, Land Restoration and Public Relations'. Our seminars are free and open to all, please register via link below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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A Gift to the Community? Public Art, Land Restoration and Public Relations
This paper considers the role of public art in regenerating former mining regions.
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The next seminar in our autumn series will be on 20 November, with Riccardo Guarino's paper, 'Art, Nature, and Ethics: a biocentric critique of art installations in natural ecosystems'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Art, Nature, and Ethics: a biocentric critique of art installations in natural ecosystems
This session will explore the ethics of contemporary art in nature, questioning ecological harm, commodification, and proposing non-intrusive, restorative alternatives.
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A reminder of our seminar on Thursday, 6th November.
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Our autumn seminar series continues on 6 November, with Maria Huhmarniemi's paper, 'Art and Educational Practices with Arctic Land and Communities'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Art and Educational Practices with Arctic Land and Communities
This session will explore new genre Arctic art, blending activism, community, and ecology to address climate, culture, and sustainability through participatory practices.
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Our next seminar in the autumn series will be on 23 October, with Leigh Arnold's paper, 'Exceeding the Field of Vision: Women of Land Art'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Exceeding the Field of Vision: Women of Land Art
This session will explore women’s contributions to 1960s Land art, highlighting their innovative works and reshaping its history beyond the male-dominated narrative.
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Don't forget to tune in to BBC Gardeners' World this evening at 8pm on BBC2 to see the Garden's Director, @beverleycubg.bsky.social, talking to Nick Bailey on how flowers make colour & how they use it to attract pollinators. Read more: bit.ly/4838O1P @camplantsci.bsky.social
CUBG Director, Beverley Glover and presenter Nick Bailey while being filmed for Gardeners' World in the CUBG Glasshouse Range. Beverley is pipetting colour liquid and there are various flasks on the table in front of them and a TV camera and boom operator to one side
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Our autumn term seminar series continues, on 9 October, with Mark Allwood Portillo and Kathryn Last's paper, 'Andy Goldsworthy: Temporalities of Matter and Forms of Resistance'. Our seminars are free and open to all. @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Andy Goldsworthy: Temporalities of Matter and Forms of Resistance
This paper explores the relationship between temporality, sustainability, and ecological art through the work of Land artist Andy Goldsworthy
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Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The first seminar in our autumn series, on 25 September, will be Joy Sleeman's paper, 'Land Art (whatever that might be): a history reconsidered'. Our seminars are free and open to all. Registration details below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Land Art (whatever that might be): a history reconsidered
This session will explore 30 years of Land art research, tracing its histories, sites, ecologies, and legacies while provoking fresh views on past and present works.
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
During the coming autumn term the seminar will step out of the garden to consider land art as design in the landscape. See details for 'Design in the Landscape: The Evolution of Land Art' here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Supported by the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes Seminar Supporters Group and Birkbeck Garden History Group .
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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!
Leeds IMC 2026 Call for Papers:
When is a Landscape?
The Landscape Consortium invites papers exploring medieval landscapes in and beyond time, their multiscalar and multitemporal constructions and interpretations, and their meanings within medieval or modern worlds.
 
When is a landscape? Following the lead of Yannis Hamilakis’ work (2013) demonstrating that object and place are witnesses to coexistences of times, this session seeks to explore medieval landscapes as carriers of concurrent past, present and future places and meanings, and as bridges between multiple scales of studies and multiple times. We are particularly interested in creative, theoretic and interpretive research to understand how landscape can – and do – transcend temporal boundaries. 

Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to:
•	Multiscalar explorations of place and landscapes
•	Dynamic theories and interpretations
•	Multiple, concurrent times understood in landscapes and places
•	Microhistories or biographies of landscapes

Papers are welcome from any area of the world and ‘medieval’ broadly conceived. 

Please send a 250-word abstract (plus key terms), short CV, and contact information to landscapeconsortium@gmail.com by 15 September.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organizers at the same email.

The Landscape Consortium is dedicated to promotion of multidisciplinary research into the landscapes of the medieval world. The organizing directors are Drs Karl Christian Alvestad, Daniel Brown, Stefanie Schild, Johannes Waldschütz and Katherine Weikert.
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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Now open @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! Smelling the Bouquet: Plants & Scents in the Garden (May 2, 2025 – March 31, 2026) explores the spectrum of scents plants create, inspired by the diverse live & scientific collections @mobotgarden.bsky.social. More: www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gard...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
UK sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #WomensArt
Photo of a willow sculpture in a woodland, the sculpture resembles a female archer with flowing long skirt about to shoot an arrow into the distance
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The Dirt | Horticulture News Daily @thedirtnews.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Reviving the Benton End Walled Garden thedirt.news/appeal-for-t... #bentonend #garden #walledgarden #cedricmorris #conservation #gardenmuseum
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Reviving The Benton End Walled Garden
The Garden Museum has launched an appeal to raise £125,000 to bring the walled garden at Benton End back to life.
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This term's seminar programme continues, on 12th June, with Bettina Dietz's paper, 'Paul Hermann’s annotated herbaria: philology, ethnobotany, and techniques of text-making in eighteenth-century botany'. This is an online only seminar. More details and registration below: @ihr.bsky.social
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Paul Hermann’s annotated herbaria: Philology, ethnobotany, and techniques of text-making in eighteenth-century botany
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This term's seminar programme continues, on 12th June, with Bettina Dietz's paper, 'Paul Hermann’s annotated herbaria: philology, ethnobotany, and techniques of text-making in eighteenth-century botany'. This is an online only seminar. More details and registration below: @ihr.bsky.social
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Paul Hermann’s annotated herbaria: Philology, ethnobotany, and techniques of text-making in eighteenth-century botany
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our Spring/Summer seminar programme continues, on 15th May, with Pengcheng Zhou's paper 'Conifers and Power: The Political and Sacred Symbolism of Trees in Chinese History'. This is an online only seminar. Further details below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/conif...
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Conifers and Power: The Political and Sacred Symbolism of Trees in Chinese History
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our Spring/Summer seminar programme continues, on 15th May, with Pengcheng Zhou's paper 'Conifers and Power: The Political and Sacred Symbolism of Trees in Chinese History'. This is an online only seminar. Further details below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/conif...
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Conifers and Power: The Political and Sacred Symbolism of Trees in Chinese History
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We are delighted to announce our programme for the Spring/Summer term 2025. Our first seminar will be Ian Mell's paper 'Motifs, Policies, and Functions in East and Southeast Asia: "green space" as a travelling concept', on 1st May 2025: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/motif...
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Motifs, policies, and functions in East and Southeast Asia: "green space" as a travelling concept
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hugely exciting doctoral studentship opportunity supervised by the IHR's @justincolson.bsky.social, @adamchapman.bsky.social, and @charlesxhistory.bsky.social, Alexandra Stevenson of Historic Royal Palaces. Applications close 26th May 2025.
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@histofgdlsem.bsky.social @histofgdlsem.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The final Seminar of our Winter series, on 20 March, will be Leslie Wylie's '‘Blossoming places in the wilderness’: W. H. Hudson’s anti-gardens'. Further details below: www.history.ac.uk/events/bloss... @ihr.bsky.social
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‘Blossoming places in the wilderness’: W. H. Hudson’s anti-gardens
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