Welcome to my new Website. As this is the first post on here, and likely therefore to be at the bottom of the pile, few people will see it let alone read it. But, for me, it gives a chance to provide a brief autobiography.
I grew up with a fascination for history, which has never left me. When I was young, this was all about Bruce at Bannockburn, Knox in his pulpit, Mary Queen of Scots, the Bonnie Prince, Wellington vs Napoleon’s Marshalls in Spain, and the Scots Greys at Waterloo. At school, this transferred into themes such as the Reformation and Counter Reformation, The Thirty Years War, Nineteenth Century Military, Social and Cultural History, and inevitably on to Marxism, Revolutions and the World Wars. But then, much of this interest was frozen, for years, as adult life, parenting, and an all-consuming career in the NHS, took over.
