JULIAN HUNT was brought up in Romsley, Worcestershire, where his father founded a local history society. Educated in Birmingham, he began his career at Birmingham Reference Library in 1968. His first book on local history was published as long ago as 1973. He became Local Studies Librarian in Oldham in 1976, where he wrote The Cotton Mills of Oldham and became a very popular lecturer. In 1988 he moved to Buckinghamshire, where he is now Heritage Manager for the County Council. He has written several books on Buckinghamshire market towns in the Phillimore `Pictorial History' series and has completed a millennium history of his village of Romsley.
