Michael Hall is the Editor of The Burlington Magazine. A former Architectural Editor of Country Life and Editor of Apollo, he is the author of several books on the history of country houses and collecting, including Waddesdon Manor: The Biography of a Rothschild House (3rd ed., 2012), Treasures of the Portland Collection (2016) and Art, Passion and Power: The Story of the Royal Collection (2017). 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 of architectural history published in 2014.