Speaker
Timothy Mowl is Emeritus Professor of History of Architectural & Designed Landscapes at the University of Bristol and an Honorary Professor in the Royal Agricultural University's Cultural Heritage Institute. He is a leading authority on garden history in this country and the author of over 30 books on architecture, conservation, garden and landscape history.
Speaker
Dr Oliver Cox is Head of Academic Partnerships at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he leads a growing portfolio of partnerships with universities in the UK and internationally in support of the V&A’s mission to champion design and creativity in all its forms, advance cultural knowledge, and inspire makers, creators and innovators everywhere. He is a historian by training and has written extensively on histories of landscape design and the country house.
Course Director
Steven Parissien is Director of Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Visiting Professor of Architectural History and Visual Heritage at Coventry University, and Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He took his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford and has written extensively on architectural and cultural history: his twelve books to date include Regency Style (1992), George IV: The Grand Entertainment (2001) and The Comfort of the Past: Building Oxford 1815-2015 (2015).
