Making history fresh, exciting and readable as a freelance historian, history journalist, researcher and writer with a 30-year career.

My record covers history news, features, interviews, articles and profiles with credits like The Times, British Forces Broadcasting Service, JPI Media, Guardian US, Military History Matters, Parliament’s The House magazine, US News, the Commentator, the Foreign Policy Centre, BBC History Today, Saga magazine, LBC radio, The Times Radio, Civil Service World magazine and the Heritage Foundation.

I studied history at Leicester, Oxford and London universities, am an associate fellow of the Royal Historical Society (on merit), a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and taught British history and international relations at the University of Buckingham (Foundation Level).

My latest work, ‘Cyprus 1974’, is out this August 2025 with Pen and Sword.

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