Historian, playwright and broadcaster.
Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, specialising in the history of the British Empire.
Graduated from Oxford (1982); university prize (American History)
Taught in schools (PGCE Exeter University, 1984) and Lecturer in History in the School of Education at Exeter 1988-1992.
Head of History, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge (1992-2001). Worked with the Council of Europe in the field of history teaching.
PhD at Anglia Ruskin University (2007) on Maternal Mortality in Nineteenth-Century British India.
Served twice as Honorary Secretary of the Historical Association; headed the Better History Forum which advised Michael Gove on the history curriculum.
Award-winning playwright. "I'm Backing Britain" and "The Necessity of Atheism" at Edinburgh Fringe, 2015 and 2016; "Great War" cycle.
Regular broadcaster on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. Also BBC Essex and Cambridge 105.
