Catherine Horwood is an English journalist, author and social historian who writes on horticulture, garden design, and in fashion, the history of dress.
Her biography, Beth Chatto: a life with plants won the European Garden Book of the Year award in 2020.
[3] Horwood has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and to BBC Radio 4 programmes on social history.
[5] Horwood completed a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Women's History, and a PhD on Interwar Middle Class dress codes at Royal Holloway, University of London.
She was also an Honorary Research Fellow at University of London and has also been awarded fellowships at the Yale Center for British Art,[6][7] and the Huntington Library, Art and Botanical Gardens at San Marino, CA.