Over recent years I have produced a series of 15-minute programmes for BBC Radio 4 for Remembrance Sunday on various aspects of remembrance, as follows:
The Roots of Remembrance Day (2006)
The Roots of the British Legion (2007)
The Menin Gate (2008)
Poppies are Red, Cornflowers are Blue (2009)
Known Unto God (2011)
The Art of Remembrance (2012)
Some Corner of a Foreign Field (2013)
More details of these on the Square Dog Radio website
Prior to that I studied War, Peace & Social Change at the Open University
Building on that experience, and other historiographical work, I studied for a PhD in Modern History by Research at Edinburgh University's Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict, where I transferred in autumn 2015 from Birmingham University, after completing my first year, part-time over two years. I completed my thesis in 2021, and passed my viva in early 2022, gaining my doctorate officially at the end of November 2022. My subject is the Creation and Development of Ex-Services Organisations in the UK 1914-21, looking at the various groups that formed from trade union and political backgrounds and eventually merged to form the British Legion.
In 2001 I made a series of four 15-minute programmes for BBC Radio 4 about some of the early computer pioneers, and called the series 'Electronic Brains' - more information here on the BBC website (part-screenshot below, but note the 'Listen Again' links no longer work) and here on the Square Dog Radio website
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That led to an approach from Granta and they published my book on the subject, much expanded, in 2005. More information here.
