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Adam Busiakiewicz Editor

Adam Busiakiewicz is an art historian, lecturer and lutenist. Following an undergraduate degree at University College London, he gained a Masters degree in Fine and Decorative Art from the Sotheby’s Institute. Adam is especially interested in the history and former collection of the Earls of Warwick and is currently working on his doctorate at the University of Warwick. John Martin Robinson is an architectural historian and long-standing member of the Georgian Group. He has written over twenty books relating to Georgian architects and the English country house, many of which are considered definitive treatments of their subject. His writing work has included the contribution of over 400 articles and reviews for the Country Life over a period of forty years. David McKinstry has been Secretary of the Georgian Group since April 2016, having previously worked for the Group since October 2008 as southern caseworker. He read modern history at the Christ Church, Oxford (2004–2007) staying on to complete a Masters degree in architectural history. In addition to his work at the Georgian Group he is completing a DPhil in architectural history at Oxford, where the subject of his research is the English Italianate in civic and commercial architecture in London c.1815–1860.