Michael Hall
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Michael Hall

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'A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National Trust' draws on Michael Hall’s long career as a writer on historic architecture. For many years he worked for the magazine 'Country Life', writing articles on country houses. He became intrigued by the bachelors who restored historic houses, furnished them with their collections and laid out gardens, and then gave them to the National Trust. It slowly dawned on him that there was a bigger story to be told about the many queer strands in the history of the National Trust. 'A Queer Inheritance' is the result. Michael is an architectural historian who specialises in the Victorian period and the Gothic revival. His book 'George Frederick Bodley and the later Gothic Revival in Britain and America' was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain for the best book on architectural history published in 2014. As well as two books based on Country Life’s famous photographic archive, he has published histories of the Royal Collection and of the Portland Collection at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. He works in London as a freelance writer and editor, does not possess an art collection and has no desire whatever to live in a country house.
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