John Goodall (author)

John Arthur Annesley Goodall[1] FSA (born 1970) is an English historian, author, and Architectural Editor of Country Life magazine.

He worked for several years as a freelance writer and scholar, publishing his first book in 2001, God's House at Ewelme, which was joint winner of the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize for 2001 (presented in 2002).

Goodall's second book, The English Castle, was published by Yale University Press in April 2011 on behalf of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

[3] The work also received the G. T. Clark Prize for 2007–2012, recognising "the most distinguished published contributions to the study of the history and antiquities of Wales and the Marches during the previous quinquennium".

[8] He sits on the Fabric Advisory Committees of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and St Albans Cathedral, and is a part-time Humanities staff member at the City and Guilds of London Art School.