People. Place. Landscape. Memory.

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I am an oral and social historian, author and researcher exploring the relationship between people and place — and the histories that emerge when we begin by listening to the people who lived them.

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Over more than 15 years, I have interviewed around 200 people, from agricultural workers and riverside communities to older people recalling lives and places transformed by social change.

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My work combines oral testimony, historical research and storytelling to recover experiences that can be overlooked in conventional historical records.

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This question lies at the heart of my work.

I am interested in what people's memories can tell us about place, landscape, work, community and social change.

Oral history records more than events. It can capture the texture of lived experience: how work felt, how landscapes were understood, how communities functioned, what changed and what was lost.

Again and again, my work has taken me to people whose knowledge is rarely contained in conventional archives.

I believe those voices matter.

Around 200 interviews | 3 books | 100+ reminiscence sessions | 50+ talks | 30+ public-history outputs