Where the search continues.
Here you’ll find field notes, essays, photographs, historical discoveries, and ideas still taking shape. Some become books. Others simply deepen my understanding of the people and places that continue to fascinate me.
Art as Witness
How art, attention, and witness helped expose the hidden realities of industrial Britain.
Service and Silence
Exploring the life of servants in late nineteenth century London through Eliza Turner in Unseen Souls.
The Sound of the Furnace
A working day in nineteenth-century Dowlais that shapes the world of Unseen Souls.
The Making of Dowlais
How a quiet rural upland community was radically transformed by Industrialisation.