Archive Searches and Construction

Archive, Library searches carried out in relation to customer needs - other forms of private document searches/investigation also carried out.

Personal and Company Archives constructed from past documents, photographs etc.

Writing: Books, Articles and Ghost Writing

I am currently engaged in writing 2 academic books, a novel and a Children's Book

Below, please find references to some of my work:

2010 'Blackpool Illuminations, Interaction and Progress'. See: http://cultural-anthropology.suite101.com/article.cfm/blackpool-illuminations-interaction-and-progress-1879-1982

2010 'Doing-it-Yourself in the 1950s: Towards a History of DIY Home-Improvement'. See:
http://social-anthropology.suite101.com/article.cfm/doing-it-yourself-in-the-1950s

2004 'Constructing Contemporary': Common sense approaches to 'going modern' in the 1950s, in McKellar, S. & Sparke, P. (eds.) Interior design  and Identity, M.U.P., Manchester.

1996-7 'D.I.Y.' Encyclopaedia of Interior Design, ed. Joanna Banham          (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers).

Current Research Projects


Unsophisticated Interiors: Design for the Common-Man in the 1950s & 60s (Book Proposal)

A Schoolboy Consumer in the 1960s: Making-Sense of Miniature Modernity (Book Proposal)

Grotesque Revelations: Shortcut to the Past  (Scholarly Novel Proposal)