Michael Hill is an architectural historian and an expert in Dorset buildings. He is the author of East Dorset Country Houses (2013) and West Dorset Country Houses (2014), and co-author of Cotswold Stone Homes (1994) and the third volume of The Country Houses of Gloucestershire (2001). He has also written on minor domestic architecture for The Buildings of England, Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Southern Buildings Committee of the Victorian Society.