title: Richard Ernest Muir
text: # Richard Ernest Muir
  
  Richard Muir (born 18 June 1943) is a British landscape archaeologist and author living outside Harrogate, Yorkshire.
  
  ## Education
  
  Muir was awarded his first degree and his doctorate by the University of Aberdeen where he is now an Honorary Research Fellow. He has been a lecturer in geography at several British and Irish universities.
  
  ## Publications
  
  He has been widely published for over 30 years on landscape history. He founded and initially edited the journal Landscapes. His works include:
  
  * Modern Political Geography (1975)
  * The English Village (1980)
  * The Lost Villages of Britain (1982)
  * History From The Air (1983)
  * The National Trust Guide to Prehistoric and Roman Britain (with H Welfare, 1983)
  * The Yorkshire Countryside: A Landscape History (1997)
  * Landscape Encyclopaedia (2004)
  