Tim Richardson, author of ''Sweets: The History of Temptation'', is the world's first international
confectionery
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historian. He also writes about
gardens,
landscape
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and
theatre, and contributes to the ''
Daily Telegraph
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'', ''
Country Life'', ''
The Idler'', ''
House & Garden'', ''Garden Design Journal'' and ''
Wallpaper''. He lives in
North London. In 2012 Tim founded The Chelsea Fringe (chelseafringe.com) to celebrate the more quirky horticulture that didn't quite make the Chelsea Flower Show. It takes place each year during the fortnight around the Chelsea Flower Show.
He wrote and performed comedy at
Oxford University in the 1980s in a revue group called
The Seven Raymonds with
Stewart Lee,
Richard Herring,
Emma Kennedy, and Michael Cosgrave.
Bibliography
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*''The Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape Garden'' (2007)
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review
from The Guardian newspaper.
*''Avant Gardeners: 50 Visionaries of the Contemporary Landscape'' (2008)
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*''Oxford College Gardens'' (2018)
References
British food writers
Living people
Country Life (magazine) people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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