About
Our history
Founded in England in 1967, LRG has run more than 130 events across 12 countries, published a journal for most of that time, and stayed what it set out to be: an independent community of people who take landscape seriously.
Milestone dates below are drawn from LRG records and are being verified with the archive ahead of the anniversary.
1960s
1967
The group is founded
A small circle of researchers and practitioners meets in England and agrees that landscape deserves a field of its own. The first event runs the same year.
1968
Publishing begins
The group starts to publish, the beginning of a line that leads to the journal Landscape Research as it is today.
1970s
1976
Landscape Research takes its name
The newsletter grows into a peer-reviewed journal, published under the title it still carries.
1980s
1981
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1983
Registered as a charity
LRG becomes registered charity 287160, the legal shape it keeps to this day: independent, member-led and open to anyone.
1980s
Landscape Extra begins
A newsletter for the other side of the group’s life: field trips, member news and opinion, still running today.
1990s
1990s
The group goes international
Events and collaborations spread across Europe and beyond, the start of a run that reaches 12 countries.
2000s
2000s
The research fund is established
LRG starts funding landscape research directly, small grants that have since supported work on every continent.
2010s
2017
Fifty years
The half-century is marked with events through the year and a look back at what a small independent charity had managed to sustain.
2020s
2020
The Landscape Exchange opens
An open online library for essays, film, audio and fieldwork, free to read and free to contribute to.
2026
One home online
Three separate sites become one: the group, the Exchange and the members’ area under a single roof.
2027
Sixty years
More than 130 events across 12 countries later, the anniversary year runs right through 2027.