Principal Investigator – Professor Timothy Mowl
Tim Mowl's career has included work as a freelance architectural historian, an Inspector of Historic Buildings for English Heritage, an architectural consultant and journalist in Bath, and independent lecturer and writer on architecture and planning. He joined the University of Bristol after delivering the Perry Art Lectures in 1992. He is Professor of History of Architecture and Designed Landscapes and Director of the MA in Garden History. From 1992 he taught in the Department of History of Art, but in August 2005 he moved across to the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 2006 he was appointed Director of the Institute for Garden and Landscape History, which is based in the University's Clifton Hill House.

In preparation for his MA Garden History course, Tim published Gentlemen and Players: Gardeners of the English Landscape (Sutton, 2000), which charts the influence of aristocrats and professionals on the creation of landscape parks and gardens. In addition to the Historic Gardens & Landscapes of England project he recently completed a major biography of the eighteenth-century artist, architect, furniture and landscape designer, William Kent.

Research Fellow – Marion Mako

Marion was appointed the Project's Research Fellow in November 2011. She is also a freelance garden historian and designer who has worked in both the UK and USA, specialising in English herbaceous planting - she has her own website which can be visited by clicking here. She has also lectured at the University of Bristol for the Garden History MA and carried out research on public and private gardens covering a wide variety of subjects. In addition Marion leads bespoke garden tours, gives illustrated talks and has presented some garden history pieces for the BBC. Marion worked as the Research Consultant for two counties in the series: The Historic Gardens of England: Cheshire was published in May 2008 and The Historic Gardens of Somerset in May 2010.

There has been a succession of historic gardens and landscape consultants working on the differenct counties as the Project has developed. Dr Clare Hickman worked on Northamptonshire, alongside acting as the first Research Fellow for the Project. Dr Dianne Barre researched Staffordshire, Diane James is working as the consultant for Warwickshire, Dr Jane Bradney is currently investigating Herefordshire and Dr Laura Mayer is exploring Cambridgeshire.

Find out more about the consultants here.