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Recent Work

Below are a number of articles that I have recently written; some are historical, some legal, some creative, some travel writing. There are even a number of articles that I have written for local newspapers. Just a wide selection to show the sorts of things that I have recently turned my hand to.

For details of things I have recently been doing, both personally and employment-wise, please see my Curriculum Vitae.

I am currently on the Bar Vocational Course at the College of Law in London, having just finished eight months as  a paralegal for Wright Hassall Solicitors in Leamington Spa. For one of the firm's newsletter's featuring a piece on the department I worked in (Housing), please click here.

 

Travel Writing:

 Northern Italy 2001

Salzburg 2001

Toronto 2001

Belgium  2001

Malta 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creative Writing and Miscellaneous:

"Taking the Temperature of the UK's Parliamentary Democracy - 2002" - published October 2002 in "Churchilliad".

"Moated Manors in the Heart of England" - article written for the Heart of England tourist board and published in their magazine, "Heart".

 University Sketch

Reporter-style coverage of the Birmingham "Protests against Capitalism", 2001.

West Herts Scouts Newsletter Winter 2001 - I am the Publicity Officer for West Herts Scouts and am responsible for collating, writing and editing this newsletter. 

Press Release December 2001 - my duties also involve writing press releases, and this article is the result of one of these.

Robert Burns - Immortal Memory - text of a short speech given by me at a Burns night in January 2002.

Legal:

 "Wider still and Wider?" The Law of Psychiatric Injury

  Rules Relating to the Use of Force in International Law

"The Law of Intoxication is in a thorough mess. Reform cannot come soon enough". Discuss.

  Mooting Notes

 

 

History:

 The Fall of the Court of Star Chamber

 The Real Actions: Early English Land Law

 Winston Churchill and Oratory

"Take your place in life's fighting line" - article on the lessons young people can learn from Winston Churchill, just accepted for publication in "Finest Hour" magazine, the quarterly journal of the Churchill centre in Washington D.C.

 "Churchill's Women" - notes and write-up of a talk by Sir Martin Gilbert on the influential women in Winston Churchill's life.

The Battle of Malta, 1940-1943

Treaty of Versailles

Cold War as a Stable International System

 

 

 

ChurchillOnline

Here is a link to Churchill Online, my website dedicated to Winston Churchill, which, receiving over a thousand hits a week, rates as one of the most visited Churchill sites on the internet.

 

Published Material:

In the "Daily Telegraph":

 On the Eurofighter.

 

In the "Croydon Guardian" (please bear with me - some of these links are broken as the newspaper has since taken them off-line: I shall scan them in from my clippings as soon as opportunity permits. However, there should still be plenty available to give a good impression of my work in the meantime.)

(All the named links below are to articles that were published under my name)

 "Stop that heart attack" - interview and publicity for a GP's new book.

 "Exciting times for the Earl of Eldon" - interview and pub review.

 "How to get kids off the console" - local events piece.

 "England Footie Ace plays fair - for free!" - publicity for a school event and other miscellaneous articles.

 "Save local trees from drying up" - self-explanatory news item!

 "Learning made fun by funding" - report on a school's boost in funding.

 Number of brief, unnamed news items, all written by me: 1, 2, 3, 4

 

In the "Birmingham "Evening Mail"

 A number of small scanned news items, unnamed.

 

In the journal of the Churchill Centre, Washington D.C., "Finest Hour"

Full Length Articles:

Published in September/October 2002 (Proper link to follow):

"Churchill's Women" - write-up of a talk by Sir Martin Gilbert

"Take Your Place in Life's Fighting Line" - an article on the importance of Winston Churchill to young people.

"Taking the Temperature of the UK's Parliamentary Democracy - 2002"

Comments:

 On David Irving

 On Neville Chamberlain

Last Updated:  17 December, 2002

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