Dr Katie Campbell

Writer, garden historian and lecturer. She has taught at Birkbeck, Bristol and Buckingham Universities, writes for various publications and leads art and garden tours. Her British Gardens in Time accompanied a BBC TV series. Other books include Paradise of Exiles, Icons of 20th-century Landscape Design and Policies & Pleasances: A Guide to Scotland’s Gardens. Her most recent book, Cultivating the Renaissance, charts the evolution of Renaissance ideas on philosophy, politics and aesthetics as reflected in the Medici's Tuscan villas.