History tutor for GCSE and higher education students

If one sentence could sum me up it would be, as a friend said,: 'A Dr. of history who once organised a vintage bus trip to a sewage works'.

I love history, its stories and its peoples.

My current research interests include maritime, urban and sport & leisure. With a particular focus on the 19th and 20th centuries.

I hold a Master's degree from Leeds Metropolitan University in Northern Studies and researched a PhD. entitled ‘Sport and the Victorian City’ at De Montfort University, Leicester.

My most recent work was writing a lecture for Sheffield University. The lecture focussed on the emergence of an urban industrial society in 1840s Britain and how towns and cities dealt with the issues of mechanisation, migration, housing and sanitation. I gave the lecture and led heritage walks, for ninety students studying Urban Studies and Planning.

A couple of the articles and chapters I have had accepted for publication, that you maybe able to access online, include:

‘Culture, Tourism and Residential Development: the regeneration of Bradford’s Little Germany warehouse district’, A Collection of Essays on Place, Skills and Governance in the Yorkshire and Humber Region, (Leeds: Leeds Metropolitan University, 2010).

‘Holidaymaking on the Edge: erosion, marginality and preservation, at Skipsea, Yorkshire, UK’, The International Journal of Tourism History, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2012.

I recently took a break from academic research to publish 'On the Tracks of the Thames-Clyde Express'. A travelogue and history of the route of the express that travelled between London and Glasgow, via the Shires of England, the fabled Settle-Carlisle line, Walter Scott's Border Country and finally into the city on the Clyde, Glasgow.

I am currently working towards a public exhibition with Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre, researching the wrecks of twenty-one ships sank, and 120 sailors killed, by sea mines during the famous bombardment of Scarborough in December 1914. I am also working with Scarborough Sub Aqua Club rediscovering the wrecks themselves on the seabed.