My Historical Resume

Publications/awards

2023, December

Awarded Master of Arts in History, University of Birmingham. My dissertation  The Impact of the Great Famine 1314-1318 on the manor of Downton, Wiltshire is available for free download HERE.

2023, May

The City Horse: London’s militia cavalry during the English Civil War, 1642-1660

2021, September

The Anglo-Spanish War 1655-1660
Volume 2: War in Jamaica

This is the second of two volumes about the English invasion of the West Indies to be published by Helion and Co.

 

2021, April

The Anglo-Spanish War 1655-1660
Volume 1: War in the West Indies

This is the first of two volumes about the English invasion of the West Indies to be published by Helion and Co. The second volume should be published at the end of 2021.

 

2018, March

‘Mustard Gas: The experience of the 25th Battalion AIF, October-November 1917’

Published in the Military History Association of Australia journal Sabretache.

 

2017, November

What happened to 1/5 South Lancashire Regiment at the Battle of Villers-Guislain on 30 November 1917?

http://www.pshistory.com/articles/the-capture-of-15-south-lancashire-regiment-villers-guislain-30-november-1917/

 

2017, October

‘Mustard Gas: The experience of the 25th Battalion AIF, October-November 1917’

http://www.pshistory.com/articles/mustard-gas-the-experience-of-the-25th-battalion-aif-in-october-to-november-1917/

2017, July

47th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Casualties at the Battle of Messines 7–12 June 1917

The Western Front Association Stand To! No. 109

 

2017, June

The Casualty Evacuation Scheme, Battle of Messines 7-12 June 1917

http://www.pshistory.com/articles/casualty-evacuation-scheme-battle-of-messines-7-june-1917/

 

2017, April

The fate of D Company, 18th Durham Light Infantry, 1 July 1916

http://www.pshistory.com/articles/d-company-18th-durham-light-infantry-battle-of-serre-1-july-1916/

 

2015, September

The Origins of the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement

Sabretach, Journal of the Military Historical Society of Australia

http://www.pshistory.com/articles/beerburrum/

 

2012, September

Captain Walter Aland Leslie

Digger, the Magazine of the Families and Friends of the First AIF, Inc

http://www.pshistory.com/download/walter-aland-leslie/

 

1991, October

Cromwell’s Jamaica Campaign: The Attack on the West Indies, 1654-55

Partizan Press, ISBN 094652579X

1987, November

The Kent Trained Bands & First Scots War, 1639

English Civil War Notes & Queries, November 1987

http://www.pshistory.com/articles/english-civil-war/the-kent-trained-bands-the-first-scots-war-1639/

 

1987, October

The Anglo-French Campaign,1657-58

English Civil War Notes & Queries, October 1987

http://www.pshistory.com/articles/english-civil-war/the-english-campaign-in-flanders-1657-58/

Presentations

2022, June

Presentation on the Aysgarth Manuscripts in the possession of the Abbey Museum, Caboolture, Queensland given at the Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, North Yorkshire, England.

 

2019, April

Interview concerning the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement on ABC Sunshine Coast and ABC Queensland. Click link below to hear the interview:

Beerburrum Soldier Settlement interview

 

2018, November

The Hundred Days: Australia’s role in the end of the Great War.

Presentation given to Stafford Probus meeting.

 

2018, April

Co-host on ABC Sunshine Coast radio ANZAC Day coverage.

A recording can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/abc-sunshine-coast/anzac-day-2018-on-abc-sunshine-coast

My parts are at minutes 1,6,13,23,27,42 and 55.

 

2018, April

Beerburrum State School: The early years.

A talk on the origins and early years of the Beerburrum State School to be given on the Centenary Day of the founding of the school on 22 April 2018.

 

2017, November

‘Mustard Gas: The experience of the 25th Battalion AIF, October-November 1917’

A paper to be presented at the  joint University of South Australia’s ‘Narratives of War’ symposium and the Military Historical Society of Australia National Biennial Conference, City West Campus, Adelaide 17-19 November 2017.

 

2017, July

‘Researching WW1 Australian Soldiers’

Queensland Family History Society Library and Resource Centre.

 

2017, July

’47th Battalion, AIF and the Medical Evacuation Scheme, Battle of Messines 7-12 June 1917′

Queensland branch of the Military History Society of Australia.

 

2017, April

‘Researching WW1 Australian Soldiers’

Sunshine Coast Historical and Genealogical Resource Centre Inc

 

2017, April

Co-host  Breakfast Show on ANZAC Day

ABC Sunshine Coast Radio

 

2017, February

‘Researching WW1 Australian Soldiers’

Caloundra Family History Research Group

 

2016, November

Beerburrum Soldier Settlement Centenary event, hosted and presented by myself.

 

2015, April

‘Gallipoli’

‘Where the Australians Fought’

‘Casualty Evacuation Process’

‘Beerburrum Soldier Settlement’

Presented at the Adopt a Digger ANZAC Centenary Exhibition, Buderim, Queensland.

 

2014, April

‘The origins of the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement’

Paper presented to Military Historical Society of Australia national conference, Maryborough, Queensland.