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Fearful and Wonderful – in Bury St Edmunds

Posted on 26 October 2018 by admin

Earlier in October, an auction was held at Lacy Scott & Knight auctioneers in Bury St Edmunds. A descendant of Alfred Swaine Taylor’s passed away at t...

Books

The Back Doors to Death – at Highgate Cemetery

Posted on 26 September 2018 by admin

I was so pleased to be asked to give a talk on Alfred Swaine Taylor and nineteenth-century forensic science at the legendary Highgate Cemetery. It’s where...

Books

The Back Doors to Death: Alfred Swaine Taylor talk at Highgate Cemetery – Thursday 20th September

Posted on 30 July 2018 by admin

Alfred Swaine Taylor, one of the most famous forensic scientists of his day, was laid to rest at Highgate Cemetery in north London in 1880. At my talk, find out...

Out and about/Writing

Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017

Posted on 30 April 2017 by admin

I’ve been rather busy over the last couple of months, zipping off to the Essex Book Festival for the Criminally Good Afternoon Tea, zooming off to the NEC...

Out and about/Television

From The Bridge to Hinterland at the Birmingham Literature Festival

Posted on 14 November 2016 by admin

A perfect chaser for the talk by Walter Iuozzolino, he of Walter Presents, had to be the talk given by crime drama writer-creators Hans Rosenfeldt, of Swedish/D...

Writing

My first blog post

Posted on 16 October 2015 by admin

Just last week, I was giving a talk about ‘Social media for authors’ at Book to the Future – the University of Birmingham’s literature f...

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