A little about me
I was born in 1951, and have lived all my life first in St Albans (Hertfordshire, England) and then (since 1970) in South East London, apart from a year
as an exchange student in Schenectady, New York (USA). I
have now retired from paid employment, but remain active in
my local community. I have a
42-year old son and two grandchildren.
Contact me
Print publications
'Every Man His Own Football', Freedom
39.16:16, 20 August 1978
'DNA Fingerprinting – Some Implications for
Genealogists', Genealogists' Magazine 23.1:10-2, March 1989
——
reprinted in Family Tree Magazine 5.10:6, August 1989
—— reprinted in
Familia (journal of the
Genealogical Society of South Africa) 28:1:131-134,
1991
'. . . But Who Were They?', Family Tree
Magazine 7.1:14, November 1990
'A Handful of Quaker Families', Quaker
Connections 10:23–6, March 1997
'The impact of photography on Quaker attitudes to
portraiture', Genealogists' Magazine 27.2:21-24,
June 2001
'The Friend and The British Friend
as Sources for Quaker Family History in the Nineteenth Century ',
Genealogists' Magazine ,
2003
'Robert Foster ', article in the
Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography , 2004
'The Foster Family', Quaker Connections
32:7, July 2004
'Quakers in the Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography ' ,
Quaker Connections 35:30–33, July 2005
'How on earth did I get here?', Quaker
Connections 51:3–5, November 2010
'H.G. Wells and anarchism', Anarcho SF: The Obsolete
Press Irregular Anthology of Anarchist Science Fiction, Volume #1,
ed. Rich Dana, April 2014
'Listening to Our Ancestors', Quaker
Connections
69:22–45, November 2016
'Quaker Family History from the British Newspaper Archive', Quaker
Connections 83:13–18, July 2021
Book review: A Grand Spell of Sunshine.
The Life and Legacy of Francis Frith , Quaker Connections
88:30–33, March 2023
‘Family History in The Retreat Archive’,
Quaker Connections 89:3–6, July 2023
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