Social history
Rural Drives was sponsored by a journalist's bursary from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. An update of William Cobbett's Rural Drives, the book is a journey through England in the summer of 1998 and a critique of housing and social policy. The Stuff of Life, which I co-edited, shows the food that ordinary people ate, the unhealthy conditions in which they lived and the horrific dangers they faced at work in Edwardian Britain.
Rural Drives was sponsored by a journalist's bursary from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. An update of William Cobbett's Rural Drives, the book is a journey through England in the summer of 1998 and a critique of housing and social policy. The Stuff of Life, which I co-edited, shows the food that ordinary people ate, the unhealthy conditions in which they lived and the horrific dangers they faced at work in Edwardian Britain.
Drains and bed bugs
In 2012, the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, I was asked to write a history of the last 60 years of my employer, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. The book was assembled using archive pictures and the reminiscences of members. It describes a period in which the skies were cleared of smoke, the slums were demolished and the nation's food was made safer and more varied. And it shows the work of a group of public servants whose labours are rarely acknowledged.
In 2012, the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, I was asked to write a history of the last 60 years of my employer, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. The book was assembled using archive pictures and the reminiscences of members. It describes a period in which the skies were cleared of smoke, the slums were demolished and the nation's food was made safer and more varied. And it shows the work of a group of public servants whose labours are rarely acknowledged.