Barbara Simms has been editor of Garden History since 2004. She has been Course Director of the MA in Garden and Landscape History at the Institute of Historical Research, co-ordinator of the MA Garden History at Birkbeck, University of London, and has also taught garden history at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Barbara was chair of London Parks & Gardens Trust (2002-8). She is the author of Eric Lyons and Span (2006) and John Brookes, Garden and Landscape Designer (2007).