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194 BOOK REVIEWS References Lowenthal, D. 1985. The past is a foreign country, Cambridge University Press. Rotherham, I. D., ed. 2008. Orchards and groves, Wildtrack Publishing. Ian D. Rotherham Emeritus Professor, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK I.D.Rotherham@shu.ac.uk © 2022 Ian D. Rotherham https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2021.2038824 The Tree Experts. A History of Professional Arboriculture in Britain, by Mark Johnston, Windgather Press, 2021, 560pp, 94 figures, £55 (Hbk), ISBN 9111889199781 I think it’s fair to say that when it came out in 1976 Oliver Rackham’s Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape was one of the most eye-opening books for landscape historians and archaeologists since Hoskins’s Making of the English Landscape twenty-odd years before. A whole new subset of the subject was opened up with a vocabulary we all seized on – notably coppicing and pollarding – and novel definitions such as those for wood and timber (not the same thing at all). This new book addresses a complementary and occasionally overlapping subject, pro- fessional arboriculture, defined by the OED as ‘the study or practice of growing trees and shrubs’. Johnston is an experienced urban forester, academic, and author (e.g. Street Trees in Britain: A History, 2017), and this is his ambitious overview