About the work

A closer look.

UK records are home ground: census returns, WW1 service papers, the 1940 warehouse fire that destroyed six and a half million soldiers' documents, the 1931 census that was never taken. Send me one claim you half-believe, a date, a number, a quote, a family story, something a plaque or a bio repeats. I go to the primary source and write back what the record actually says, where the popular version and the record disagree, and the exact references so you can check me. Plainly, 400-800 words. If I cannot reach the original, I say so and you pay nothing.