This is the story of my life in 2022 when I retired from a career in public libraries after 44 years and moved back to the UK after living in Canada for 10 years
This is the story of my life in Thunder Bay, NW Ontario, during year 2 of the Covid pandemic. It includes my visits to provincial parks in the summer and fall of 2021 and my visit to the UK at Xmas to see my son for the first time in 2 years.
This is the story of the men of Orpington who fought and died in the Great War and who are remembered on War Shrines and War Memorials in the Orpington area.
Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today.
This is the story of Petten Grove, a road on the Ramsden estate in south east London which was built in the 1950s. Movements of people and families into and out of Petten Grove from 1956-2003 are analysed to reveal a pattern of continuity and change.
This is my autobiography for the years 1998-2012 when I was working for the London Borough of Merton and Lincolnshire County Council. It spans the years when Tony Blair's New Labour government was in power. It includes my move to Sleaford, Lincolnshire in 2004, after living in Orpington for the previous 48 years and moving out of my home at 32 Petten Grove, where I had lived for 44 years. It includes my redundancy in 2011 and my brief period o...
The story of the men of Canada who fought and died in the Great War and were buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery - known locally as Canadian Corner - at All Saints churchyard, Orpington, Kent.
This is the story of Corke's Meadow, a Romany Gypsy community in south east London 1923-1959 that was eliminated through a process of eviction, segregation and assimilation.
This is the story of Rauceby Asylum near Sleaford in Lincolnshire and its two burial grounds containing over 700 former patients.Case studies are given on several patients based on medical notes made at the turn of the century.
Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today.
Tugmutton Common is the story of William Pateman and his family. William, born in 1857 at Rochester, Kent, was a Gypsy who travelled around West Kent, making beehives and hawking goods. In 1881 he settled at the Gyspy camp at Tugmutton Common, Locks Bottom, Farnborough, Kent. This was also the home of Levi and Urania Boswell, the 'King and Queen' of the Kent Gyspies. William died at Orpington in 1921.
This is a record of my life in Thunder Bay during 2019, the places I visited including Ketchum, Idaho and Washington DC, and the conferences I attended.