Brian Kerr is a soil scientist who is presently a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University.  He has worked with the REC in past years delivering courses in Geology, and Landscape.  In 2014 he published a book entitled, An Unassuming County: the Making of the Bedfordshire Countryside, and this has now been followed by a second publication, entitled, A Certain Degree of Magnificence: People in the Bedfordshire Landscape.  Earlier in 2021 he published a third book entitled, How to Value a Skylark: The Countryside in a Time Change