Thinking and talking about Anglo-Norman fact and fiction, finding perspectives on the past through writing and reading about it, engaging imaginatively with long-ago people and ways of life  – these are the things I love to do and want to share on this website.

For the past twenty years I have been teaching and writing about literature and history. Living in Colchester,  a town which lays claim to the largest Norman keep ever built in Britain, with impressive Norman ruins all around, inspired me with a desire to write about it, exploring a world that is both lost to us and yet lives on in our castles, churches, law, language and the stories we tell ourselves.