Jeremy Musson (born London, 1965) is an English author, editor and presenter, specialising in British
country houses
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these peopl ...
and architecture.
Career
Musson was an architectural writer on ''
Country Life'' magazine from 1995 to 1998, and its Architectural Editor from 1998 to 2007. He also presented the
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...
series ''
The Curious House Guest
''The Curious House Guest'' is a British television documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two in 2005. It is written and presented by Jeremy Musson, an architectural historian and journalist with '' Country Life''. In each episode he visits a ...
'' (2005–6).
Books
*''The English Manor House''
*''100 Period Details: Plasterwork''
*2005: ''How to Read a Country House''. London: Ebury Press,
*2008:
The Country Houses of John Vanbrugh: from the archives of Country Life'.
Aurum Press
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, , .
*2009: ''Up and Down Stairs''. London: John Murray
*2012: ''In Pursuit of the Best Gun: Westley Richards & Co. 1812-2012: a bicentennial history''. Birmingham: Westley Richards & Co.
*2018: ''The Country House: past, present, future'';
David Cannadine
Sir David Nicholas Cannadine (born 7 September 1950) is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton Unive ...
& Jeremy Musson New York: Rizzoli International
External links
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1965 births
Living people
English architectural historians
English male non-fiction writers
Country Life (magazine) people
New Classical architecture
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