My aim is to make every project that I work on the most complete, most balanced, most compelling account of its topic ever undertaken. That’s what gives me a reason to write. Hopefully, it’s also what gives you a reason to read me.

 

For the most part, my job is to explore subjects that you probably won’t have come across anywhere else. To do that, I read widely and learn from the work of some great historians and researchers. 

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Every so often, though, I come across something that nobody has looked at properly before. Then I do what I love best of all, and engage in some heavyweight original research of my own.

 

This page links you to a selection of major research projects that I've completed in the period 1990 to date. These are investigations that I’m especially proud of, about things that you simply won't find written about anywhere else – even in the dusty journals that are my usual haunts.

 

So, as the tagline of one of my old blogs put it: this page links you to strange stories – but with sources.