About Me
I'm a historian and writer with a passion for sharing stories. As an academic, I'm a Professor at the Institute of Historical Research, and I also hold a Visiting Professorship in English Literature at the University of Southampton. As an author, I write for wider audiences and love opportunities to speak and share my research.
Originally a specialist in the Middle Ages, I now work across periods of history and literature, with particular interests in place, heritage, and uses of the past. I've published on topics from medieval towns and cities to pilgrimage, from the earliest English poetry to underground legends, and from AI and 'Levelling Up' to the cultural history of mud. My research takes me to all kinds of fascinating and unexpected places, from walking in the Welsh Marches, to exploring devotional practices in Ethiopia, to crawling through the Bronze Age mines deep under Cheshire's Alderley Edge.
I am represented by Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown.
Projects
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Beach Hut
If you follow me on social media, you'll know my favourite place to write - whenever I can manage it - is my beach hut, close to my home in Southbourne, Dorset. I love sharing pictures of the sea through changing weather and seasons. You'll find some more photos in the Gallery below.
