Interview with Essex Records Office

Read my interview with Essex Records Office

Special Constable Gripper - History Notebook

My account of the work of Special Constable Herbert Gripper has just been published by the Essex Police Museum as History Notebook 60 and can be downloaded.

It is based on the journal and papers held by the Essex Records Office ((D/Z 137/1).

Essex Book Festival

I will be talking about my book, Chelmsford in the Great War, at the Essex Book Festival at 11 am on Saturday 14th March, at the Essex Records Office.

Tickets are £6 each. I hope to see you there!

Alick Horsnell Street

I've nominated Alick Horsnell to have a street named after him in the new Beaulieu Park development in Chelmsford.

From humble origins in South Primrose Hill, Alick was a gifted young architect who studied at the Chelmsford School of Arts and Sciences and trained under Frederick Chancellor. As a RIBA-prize winning architect he was widely seen as a rising stars of his generation. He joined up at the outbreak of the Great War and, as a 33 year old second lieutenant in the 7th Royal Suffolk Regiment, he was tragically killed on 3rd July 1916.

Email the campaign at snn@chelmsford.gov.uk to support my nomination!

Final draft, part 2

That's it - final manuscript revisions completed and sent off. Now we wait for the proofs...

Final draft

Just received the editor's mark up of the manuscript. I do wish I had paid attention to the Pen & Sword style guide!

Other than that, it's full steam ahead...

In Flanders Fields

Exploring my Great War interests outside Chelmsford, my article on the Essex Farm advanced dressing station outside Ypres has just been published in the Wellcome History journal In Flanders Fields (page 9)