“William Shenstone and the Fairy Landscape”, Georgian Group Journal, 1986.

  • “Unhealthy Prospect”, Country Life, 7 May 1987.

  • “Saving the Wizard’s Landscape”, with Stewart Harding, Country Life, 14 April 1988

  • “Thomas Wright at Stoke Park”, Garden History, 17: 1, 1989

  • The English Garden Tour, with Mavis Batey (John Murray, 1990)

  • Researching a Garden's History (Landscape Design Trust, 1991, 1994, 1996)

  • A Gazetteer of Historic Parks and Gardens in Avon, with Stewart Harding (Avon County Council, 1992)

  • Public Prospects: historic urban parks under threat (Garden History Society and Victorian Society, 1993)

  • Historic Parks and Gardens of Avon, with Stewart Harding (1994)

  • Arcadian Thames, with Mavis Batey, Henrietta Buttery and Kim Wilkie (1995)

  • “Public Parks: A Rant,” The London Gardener, 1995

  • “Historic Parks and Gardens: a review of legislation, policy guidance and significant court and appeal decisions”, Journal of Planning and Environment Law, July 1995

  • “The Perambulator” columns in The London Gardener, annual, 1995 to date.

  • ‘”The Poet’s Feeling”: aspects of the Picturesque in contemporary literature, 1794-1815,’ Garden History, 24:1, 1996.

  • “Public Parks and the Lottery Millions,” The London Gardener, 1996

  •  “Planning Law, Present and Future and the Register within the Planning System”, Gerddi, 1997.

  • Historic Parks and Gardens in the Planning System: a Handbook, with Christopher Dingwall (Landscape Design Trust, 1997)

  • “New Labour and Old Gardens,” The London Gardener, 1997

  • Historic Public Parks of Weston-super-Mare (1998)

  • Four Purbeck Arcadias  (New Arcadian Press, 1998)

  • “Top-Down, Bottom-Up?”, The London Gardener, 1998

  • Guide London (1999)

  • “Politics and parks: renaissance and inertia”, Cultural Trends 35, 1999.

  • “These Trees Must Die!”, The London Gardener, 1999

  • Documentary Notes: The Thames Archive Project (Public Art Development Trust, 2000)

  • Historic Public Parks of Bristol (Bristol 2000)

  • Indignation: the Campaign for Conservation, with Mavis Batey and Kim Wilkie (Barn Elms, 2000)

  • “A tale of two cities: new public spaces in Paris”, Landscape Design, September 2000

  • "Buildings and Monuments", with Hazel Conway, in The Regeneration of Public Parks (Spon: 2000)

  • “The Power of ‘Power of Place’,” The London Gardener, 2000

  • “Public parks and living cities”, Context 72, December 2001.

  • “Places need People: Whose Heritage?,” The London Gardener, 2001

  • “The Heritage Lottery Fund’s Urban Parks Programme”, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, vol.46, 2002.

  • The Heritage Lottery Fund’s Urban Parks Programme, Urban Parks Forum, Occasional Paper, 2002.

  • Post-war Gardens and Landscapes in the UK: a provisional history for the post-war period, www.gardenhistorysociety.org, 2002.

  • “The prospect of trade: the merchant gardeners of Bristol in the second half of the eighteenth century” in Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850, Harvard University, 2002

  • “Meaningful community participation is not cheap”, Landscape Design, June 2002

  • “Time for a Vision”, Burgess Park: a new urban landscape for London, 2002

  • “Lost in Space?,” The London Gardener, 2002

  •  “Victims of golf course blight”, New Statesman, 1 December 2003.

  • ‘Gardens at Risk’, The Economist, 2003

  • “A Welcome to our New Champion,” The London Gardener, 2003

  • “The Gateway Project”, in Opening Doors: Learning in the Historic Environment, Attingham Trust 2004.

  • “Parkitechture?,” The London Gardener, 2004

  • Allotments, CABE Space Enablers Briefing Paper, 2005

  • Caring for Historic Parkland, English Heritage / DEFRA leaflet, 2005

  • The Park Keeper, English Heritage, 2005 https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/the-park-keeper/

  • ‘Dazzled by Design?’, Green Places 15, May 2005

  • “Don’t Eat the Ducks,” The London Gardener, 2005

  • Commons, Heaths and Greens in Greater London, 2005 Historic England Research Report 50/2014

  •  ‘The History of the Country Park, 1966-2005: towards a renaissance?’, Landscape Research, 31:1, January 2006

  • Understanding and Valuing your Park, Parks Agency for Heritage Lottery Fund, March 2006

  • Parks and Gardens: a researcher’s guide to sources for designed landscapes, 3rd edition, London: Landscape Design Trust, 2006

  • The Cemetery in the Garden: 150 Years of the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, London: Corporation of London, 2006

  • ‘All rosy in the garden?  The protection of historic parks and gardens’, in Architectural Conservation: Issues and Developments, 2006.

  • ‘The Meaning and Re-Meaning of Sculpture in Victorian Public Parks’ in Sculpture and the Garden, ed. Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell, 2006

  •  ‘From Manager to Conservationist: a two-year review of the City of London Cemetery Conservation Management Plan’, Journal of the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management, Winter 2006

  • “Who Are You Calling Common?,” The London Gardener, 2006

  •  ‘Unspinning Enhancing Urban Green Space’, Spaces & Places, 24, December 2006

  •  ‘Restoration of parks is important to the public’, Horticulture Week, 15 February 2007

  • ‘Assets and liabilities: what’s that park worth?’, Green Places 35, May 2007

  • ‘Rituals of Transgression in Public Parks in Britain, 1846 to the Present’, in Performance and Appropriation: Profane Rituals in Gardens and Landscapes, ed. Michel Conan, Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2007.

  • ‘Keep a hard copy!’ Garden Design Journal, August 2007.

  • “Estuary English,” The London Gardener, 2007

  • Golf in Historic Parks and Landscapes, with Land Use Consultants, English Heritage /  DEFRA leaflet, 2007

  •  “To the Barricades!”, The London Gardener, 2008

  • ‘Country parks: a historical perspective,’ in A New Era for Country Parks, ed. Kim Haigh, Countryside Recreation Network, 2009.

  • “Public Parks and the Big Society,” The London Gardener, 2010

  • ‘The repair and regeneration of public parks,’ Context, 118, March 2011.

  • ‘The Cemeteries Select Committee Inquiry Revisited,’ English Heritage Conservation Bulletin, no.66, Summer 2011.

  • “Half in Love with Easeful Death,” The London Gardener, 2011

  • Jubilee-ation: a history of royal jubilees in public parks, Historic England, 2012.

  • “The Blackamoor & the Georgian Garden”, New Arcadian Journal, review, Garden History, 40:1, 2012

  • Todd Longstaffe Gowan, The London Square, review, The Victorian, November 2012

  • ‘Wentworth Castle in the Welfare State: the road to a public landscape,’ in Wentworth Castle and Georgian Political Gardening,’ ed. Patrick Eyres, 2012

  • “Reason not the Need!”, The London Gardener, 2013

  • ‘The Use and Reception of Historic Gardens,’ in A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. Stephen Bending, London: Bloomsbury, 2013

  • ‘Researching historic parks and gardens’ and ‘The history and the future of public parks’ in Marion Harney, ed., Gardens and Landscapes in Historic Building Conservation, Chichester, Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

  • ‘Thinking about “Rethinking Parks”’, The London Gardener, vol.18, 2014

  • War Memorial Parks and Gardens, English Heritage, Introduction to Heritage Assets, https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/iha-war-memorial-parks-gardens/    2014

  • ‘A Living Monument: Memorial Parks of the First and Second World Wars,’ Garden History 42: supplement 1, 2014.

  • ‘The “Exclusive Spirit” at Regent’s Park.’ The London Gardener, vol.19, 2015.

  • ‘POPS Muzak,’ The London Gardener, vol.20, 2016

  • ‘Mavis Batey’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/108264

  • ‘A History of Conservation Areas and the protection of parks and open spaces’ Context, March 2017

  • ‘The Gardens Trust,’ Context, May 2017

  • ‘Public parks are being neglected,’ The Times, 18.2.17.

  • ‘Running out of Control,’ The London Gardener, vol.21, 2017

  • ‘In austerity Britain, people need parks,’ The Guardian, 26.12.17.

  • ‘A Beautiful Balance? Edward Kemp and Grosvenor Park, Chester,’ Garden History, 66: suppl.1, 2018

  • ‘Dawn of the Dark Ages,’ Historic England Heritage On-line Debate,  no.7, 2018  

  •  ‘A Short History of the Great Vine at Hampton Court,’ The London Gardener,  vol.22, 2018 

  • ‘Parks for People: gone for good?’ The London Gardener,  vol.22, 2018 

  •  ‘Extinction Rebellion and ‘Guerilla Gardening’: a new wave of ecological direct action.’ The Morning Star, 13 June 2019 

  • ‘Gardens and the Climate Emergency,’ The Gardens Trust, GT News 11, Autumn 2019.

  • ‘Rebel Gardening,’ The London Gardener, vol.23, 2019.

  • ‘The role of parks in the recovery from covid’, June 2020, Parks Management Forum discussion paper

  •  ‘We’ll always have Paris’?  August 2020, Royal Society for the Arts

  • ‘Attacking the Lungs: covid and public parks’ The London Gardener 24, 2020

  • ‘On Uncertainty,’ Self & Society, Magazine no.6, Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain, Winter 2021

  • ‘Memorials and Public Parks,’ with Helen Monger, Context, 167, March 2021  

  • Closing speech at trial of the Shell Seven, Informed Dissent, April 2021

  • ‘A defence of criminal damage,’ Royal Society for the Arts blog,  May 2021,

  • ‘Environmental activism: in defence of criminal damage’, Self & Society, 49 (1), Spring 2021

  • ‘Extinction Rebellion and Racism’, Stroud against Racism Newsletter 2021

  • ‘The Madness of Avocados,’ The London Gardener, 25, 2021

  • ‘Juries keep letting Extinction Rebellion off the hook — here’s why,’ Evening Standard 5 April 2022

  • ‘The Uncertain Activist’, Resilience, 2 May 2022

  • ‘Why Black Lives Matter to Garden History,’ WHGT Bulletin, 81, Summer 2022

  • ‘The impact of climate change on parks and gardens,’ Horticulture Week, 29 November 2022 

  • ‘My Garden’s Boundaries are the Horizon: gardening and grief in a collapsing climate,’ The London Gardener, 26, 2022

  • ‘The Challenges of Climate Change,’ with Sarah Couch, GT News 21, Spring 2023, pp.18-19

  • “Thoughts on Gardens and Grief”, April 2023, Radicle from @decolonisethegarden,

  • Learning to Love Long Grass, Parks Management Association blog, 2023

  • ‘Should public parks put biodiversity first?’  Gardeners’ World Magazine, October 2023

  • ‘Learning to Love Long Grass, The London Gardener, 27, 2023

  • ‘Beyond being Hopeful: a question for the RSA,’ Royal Society for the Arts,  RSA Circle, February 2024

  • ‘Hopeless: some questions about hope and modernity,’ February 2024, Resilience

  • ‘Gardens and Climate Change,’ The Wider View: Gloucestershire Gardens and Landscape Trust Journal, Issue 5, 2024, pp.10-13.

  • ‘Leap into Death.’ Amplify Stroud, September 2024

  • ‘Meanwhile: community gardens, resilience and relinquishment’, The London Gardener, 28, 2024