It took the time you have spent reading these words, and probably the rest of this sentence as well for my favourite ever Olympic moment to ...

  History was my favourite subject at school and it still fascinates me today – I’ve always got a pile of history books next to my bed (my f...

Hi, I was absolutely delighted to be asked to make a film about mudlarking* for the Time Tunnellers.  If you don’t know, mudlarking is searc...

  The idea for My Family and Other Romans came to me in a dream. Red caped legionaries, glowing amber as they boarded a gleaming silver bul...

The historic county of Lancashire was the birthplace of England’s first industrial canals. Canals were created as an alternative way to tr...

When I was at Edinburgh University in the nineties, I studied John McGrath’s play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil . It’s a re...

The book is finally ready to go to the printer’s, word-perfect and with a beautiful cover. This is where it finally becomes an object that...