Michael Hall is a noted architectural historian and the editor of Apollo magazine. A former architectural editor and deputy editor of Country Life, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a trustee of Emery Walker's Arts and Crafts house and Chairman of the Victorian Society's activities committee. His books include Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House and The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life 1897–1939.