The Old Wheel of the New Year
‘Writing’ is not always about putting words on the page. Much of it is about thinking, shaping, structuring, researching. One of my favoured tools of structure is a monthly calendar…
The Oxford Henge
Oxford is the largest city in the UK that does not have a Roman foundation. The assumption has been, therefore, that it began with settlement by the Anglo Saxons in…
The Devil’s Quoits
It is a little known fact that the waste disposal centre at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, is a sacred site. It’s also a good waste disposal centre, being small. You arrive,…
Finding the Soul in History
The following is the substance of a talk given at the Oxford Storytelling Festival, August 2018.What is history? We often think of it as the past but more correctly it…
Where did the Romans land?
The Romans first came to Britain under Julius Caeser in 55 BC but the actual conquest and annexation of Britain to the Roman Empire happened under Claudius in AD43. That…