Christopher Woodward has been director of the Garden Museum in London since 2007. He recently led a £7.5 million reconstruction and extension of the site and gardens, creating new galleries of garden history and an education centre and setting up Britain's first archive of garden design.
Christopher is the author of In Ruins (2001), and his essay on Rousham, ‘Fast time, slow time’, is published in The Gardens at Rousham by Francis Hamel (2020).