A historian who likes untangling things.
Careful research, clear writing and an insistence that uncertainty should never be quietly converted into fact.
Historical training
I am a historian, first-class History graduate and postgraduate researcher. My academic work focuses on nineteenth-century Welsh social history and uses local institutional and administrative records to recover how national policy operated in particular communities.
This work involves the same core disciplines required by genealogy and house history: identifying people and places accurately, comparing sources, reading records in context and explaining what the evidence can support.
Why this work?
Historical records are full of individual lives, but those lives are easily flattened into names and dates. I enjoy reconnecting fragments—an occupation, an address, a newspaper report, a changing household—without losing sight of evidential limits.
The final result should be rigorous enough to trust and clear enough to share.
What guides the research.
Evidence first
A plausible match remains a lead until tested.
Context matters
Records make more sense within their own time.
Uncertainty shown
Possibility is not presented as certainty.
Plain English
Complex research should remain readable.
Have a question in mind?
Send a brief outline and I will suggest a sensible starting point.