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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 Rowe is a landscape historian and the author of Medieval Parks of Hertfordshire (reprinted 2019). She co-ordinates the research work of the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust.

An active researcher of the Hertfordshire landscape, Anne has contributed several entries to the county’s Historical Atlas (2011) and lectures on various aspects of landscape and garden history.

She has co-ordinated the Research Group of the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust since 1998 and represents the Trust on the executive committee of the Hertfordshire Association for Local History.

Anne is an active member of the Braughing Archaeology Group, helping with field-walking surveys. She also takes a keen interest in the natural environment and regularly contributes to national bird and bat surveys.