Jeremy musson biography

Jeremy Musson discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Jeremy Musson is an author of many books on the country house and historic buildings and related subjects, How to Read A Country House, English Ruins, The Drawing Room, Up and Down Stairs: the history of the country house servant, and a contributor or contributing editor to many more, including with Prof Sir David Cannadine, The Country House: Past, Present and Future.

Born in London in 1965, he grew up in London and Surrey, and after a law degree, at University College, London, and an M Phil in renaissance history, at the Warburg Institute, he worked for the Victorian Society as an architectural adviser, before moving to the National Trust, in East Anglia, as a junior curator.

From 1995, he worked for Country Life magazine, as architectural writer and then architectural editor.

Since 2007, he has been an independent author, expert and consultant, advising on the care of numerous historic build