The site has continued to grow and I plan to add some more pages about things you may find interesting.
As a History and Religious Studies teacher with many years experience, I am interested in the pedagogy of teaching history as well as history of the interaction between people and the natural world. In Early Modern Times, when distinctions between religion and science were blurred, this interaction was often seen as the relationship between people and the supernatural world. In Religious Studies, it is the power of belief that I find fascinating and at times, unsettling.
This combination of interests is reflected in my two academic dissertations; the first, my BA (Hons) dissertation from 1992 which was about witchcraft accusation in Elizabethan England, and my MA dissertation which investigated how zoological collections recognise their history and the scope for addressing the absence of animals in the school history corriculum, whilst maintaining the subject as 'real history'.
I was also fortunate enough to be asked to help with the preparation of a Channel 4 documentary for the Secrets of the Dead series in 1999, the focus of which was reasons for witchcraft accusation in the case which I had researched for undergraduate study.