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Tim Mowl directs the MA in Garden History at the University of Bristol and supervises his MLitt and PhD students at Clifton Hill House. Built by Paul Fisher, a wealthy eighteenth-century merchant, and designed in 1747 by the arch Palladian architect, Isaac Ware, the house is set at the heart of one of the University’s halls of residence. Postgraduate seminars are delivered in the Fisher Drawing Room, one of the original reception rooms of the villa, which overlooks an extensive terraced garden with twin banqueting houses. Academic activity is supported by the Garden History Society Library held in the Symonds Library at the Hall, and by the Institute for Garden and Landscape History, of which Professor Mowl is Director. This holds regular conferences and study days in the discipline.
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