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Maria Rayner has carried out research into Colchester's Lock Hospital and currently works within the NHS.

The author is notoriously secretive and his true name and any personal details about his past have never been publicly disclosed.

It is known, however, that he took to the life of a Traveller in his late teens (he was not born a Gypsy) and continues to live and earn his living in the traditional way.

Rory Reynolds is a systemic family psychotherapist in CAMHS Bedfordshire. Alongside his mental health work, Rory runs a successful theatre company and is the longstanding artistic director of the Queen Mother Theatre in Hitchin.

Ruth Richardson is a critic and medical historian.

Robert Rogerson is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Strathclyde where he leads research on communities and sustainability.

Sandra Rouse is also a social anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Anne is a landscape historian who coordinated research for the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust alongside Tom Williamson for 24 years from 1998.  Publications include Medieval Parks of Hertfordshire (2009 & 2019), Hertfordshire: A landscape history, co-authored with Tom (2013), and Tudor & Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire (2019).  Awarded a PhD by publication in 2020, Anne has recently been working with the Hertfordshire Environmental Record Centre to update the county’s Ancient Woodland Inventory.