Lost Country Houses of the West Midlands

Maxwell Craven has written extensively on architecture and antiques for the Georgian Group Journal, Country Life, and various local magazines. Whilst he has written extensively on the history of Derby and Derbyshire, on architecture and on the Midlands Enlightenment, his real love is for Roman history and post-Roman Britain. His most recent book is 'Magnus Maximus, a Neglected Roman Emperor and his British Legacy' and he has written a comprehensive guide to the Saxon Shore forts of Britain. He is a former chairman of Derby Conservation Area Advisory Committee, a member of Derby Cathedral FAC, a Trustee of Derby Bridge Chapel and the Derby Museums Trust, was Derby Museum Assistant Keeper of Archaeology and from 1982 Keeper of Antiquities. He was awarded an honorary DLitt.by the University of Derby; he was made MBE and elected FSA in 1999. James Darwin is Head of Casework for the Georgian Group. He was previously Northern Caseworker for the Victorian Society and a member of the Threatened Buildings Team at the York Office of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. He was also for a time Historic Buildings inspector for Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire at Historic England.