{{Short description|British historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Kate Felus''' (born 1971) is a designed-landscape historian. She studied at the University of Warwick and the University of Bristol. Her specialist subject area is the social history of 18th-century gardens and their buildings.

From 1996 to 2001 Felus was Garden Historian at Stowe, the 18th-century landscape garden, where the National Trust is undertaking a massive restoration programme begun in 1990. Her role included being part of the Stowe Restoration Team, providing specialist research to aid with the production of a series of Conservation Plans that addressed the individual character areas within the formal gardens and wider parkland. The historic research directly influenced and guided a programme of archaeological investigations that were critical to ensuring that the restoration of each character area was accurate and appropriate.

She was a trustee of Hestercombe Gardens surrounding Hestercombe House and has also been involved with buildings conservation both at Stowe and as Project Co-ordinator for the National Trust’s first restoration of a Modernist building, the Erno Goldfinger House at 2 Willow Road, Hampstead.

Recent publications on garden conservation have discussed the landscapes of Blenheim Palace,<ref>{{cite book|last=authors|first=various|title=HISTORIES OF GARDEN CONSERVATION. Case-studies and critical debates: The Landscape of Blenheim Palace. Three Centuries of Conservation? Colloquio internazionale sulla storia della conservazione dei giardini|year=2005|publisher=Olschki|location=Firenze|isbn=88-222-5430-9}}</ref> Dunster Castle, Croome Court and Westbury Court.<ref>"Looking beyond the Boundaries: Seeing Parks and Gardens in their Wider Landscape – Understanding and Protection", in ''Giardini Contesto Paesaggio Sistemi Giardini e Architetture Vegetali nel Paesaggio…'' ed. by L. Pelessetti & L. Scazzosi, (Florence, 2005) {{ISBN|978-88-222-5483-2}}</ref> Her doctoral thesis (University of Bristol, 2009) is entitled "Beautiful objects and agreeable retreats: Uses of Garden Buildings in the designed landscape in 18th-century England".

She is the partner of British sculptor Jon Edgar. She has two sons.

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==Publications== * 'The Furniture of Erno Goldfinger at 2 Willow Road', ''Apollo'', Vol CXLIII No. 410 (new series) (April, 1996) {{ISSN|0003-6536}} * {{cite book|last=authors|first=various|title=Consuming Passions: Dining from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century - Eating Alfresco: The use of garden buildings for dining in the eighteenth-century English pleasure ground|year=2005|publisher=NPI Media Group|location=UK|isbn=978-0-7524-3445-2}} *‘Boats and Boating in the Eighteenth Century Landscape’, ''Garden History'', (2006) Vol 34, No. 1. {{ISSN|0307-1243}} * {{cite book|last=Felus|first=Kate|title=Danbury Park - A Guide to the Historic Landscape|year=2007|publisher=Essex County Council|location=UK|isbn=978-1-84194-078-6}} * {{cite book|last=Ed. Eyres|first=Patrick|title=The Proceedings of 'Painshill Park and Beyond' Conference: Painshill Park - The Pioneering Restoration of an Eighteenth Century Landscape Garden|year=2010|publisher= New Arcadian Journal|location=UK}} Kate Felus - Charles Hamilton's Buildings: Speculation on the Social Use of Painshill Park pp.&nbsp;41–50 {{ISSN|0262-558X}} * {{cite book|last=Ed. Eyres|first=Patrick|title=The Grenville Landscape of Wotton House: The Proceedings of the Wotton Landscape Conference October 2009 |year=2009|publisher= New Arcadian Journal|location=UK}} Kate Felus - Using the Pleasure Grounds; Their social History pp.&nbsp;101–111 {{ISSN|0262-558X}}

==External links== * [http://www.hestercombe.com Hestercombe Gardens website] * [http://www.historiclandscapes.co.uk Website giving more information on Kate Felus] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070914101159/http://www.jonedgar.co.uk/kate.htm Portrait head of Kate Felus, 2003]

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