Institute for Garden and Landscape History
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Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol
Welcome
The Institute for Garden and Landscape History has been established to promote the study and development of gardens and designed landscapes by encouraging academic research. It aims to disseminate this knowledge for the benefit and education of the public and, in support of this objective, to preserve and maintain archives and collections.

The Director of the institute is Timothy Mowl, Professor of History of Architecture & Designed Landscapes at Bristol University.  The Institute is administered by Dr Katie Campbell.  Professor Mowl and Katie Campbell run the MA in Garden History within the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology.This is delivered from Clifton Hill House, a Grade 1 listed Palladian villa with a large garden in Bristol's Clifton district.

Over the ten years that the MA has been operating it has produced a wide range of scholarship, including MA and Ph D theses on many areas of garden history.  Find out more about post graduate research at Clifton Hill House.

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