Anna Keay is the Curatorial Director for English Heritage. From 1996 to 2002 Anna worked as a curator for Historic Royal Palaces, which looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, Kew Palace and the Banqueting House in Whitehall. Since 2002 she has been Properties Presentation Director of English Heritage, responsible for curating and presenting to the public 420 historic sites across England, from Stonehenge to Kenwood House. John Watkins has been Head of Gardens and Landscape at English Heritage since 1999, providing policy advice and technical guidance on the maintenance and management of designed landscapes and historic parks and gardens.

• THE GARDEN IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT1. The earl of Leicester and his world 2. The place of Kenilworth in garden history 3. The architectural setting of the earl of Leicester's garden 4. The north court prior to Leicester’s works 5. The north court after the Earl of Leicester 6. Princely pleasures: the cultural patronage of the Earl of Leicester THE SOURCES 7. The Langham Letter as a source for garden history 8. The archaeology of the garden 9. Visual sources for Elizabethan garden REALISING THE RE-CREATION10. The philosophy of the reconstruction 11. The form and structure of the garden 12. The ‘Very Fair Fountain’ 13. Designing and creating the fountain 14. The Aviary 15. Birds for the Kenilworth aviary 16. The Elizabethan Flower Garden 17. Patterns of Planting

'English Heritage has given us an excellent book that will be of considerable value to anyone engaged with the making of historic gardens and is thus highly recommended.'Susan Oosthuizen, Landscape History