Inside Minds

Inside Minds is an ongoing series of illustrated essays exploring Britain's living past through historical research, original fieldwork, and documentary photography.

Each essay begins with a historic place or heritage event and a question. I research its history, go there with my camera, talk to people, look for evidence, and explore what modern Britain owes to the people who came before us.

From Neolithic stone circles and Iron Age seasonal rituals to medieval hospitals and Tudor monasteries, I look beyond what happened to consider the beliefs, traditions, and institutions that shaped people's lives — and the echoes they have left in our own.

At the heart of Inside Minds is one question: how much of the past still lives among us today?

These essays follow my journey as the researcher: the place, why it matters, the historical question, my fieldwork, selected evidence, and what I ultimately discover.

Behind them lies a deeper project. Inside Minds: The Long Memory of Britain is the narrative history book I am currently writing, using immersive, historically grounded storytelling to take the exploration much further inside the worlds of the people who came before us.

Published Chapters

Enquiries regarding book-length collaborations and extended narrative projects, including works developed in partnership with institutions or archive holders, are welcome.