About

I really do live up a close in Kelvinside.  The world can look deceptively calm and peaceful from my window but I know it is not always so – I write about that.

I write about the things I am working on and also about issues that interest me. I am a historian and feminist and a big focus for the last few years has been on writing an oral history research on domestic abuse in post-war Scotland. You will find posts about different aspects of my research posted on this site. I have also been involved in a Scotland-wide project dedicated to preventing violence against women on our university and college campuses. I have created online courses, toolkits and reserarch reports about that.

Before lockdown restrictions I loved to travel and have never yet tired of travelling around Scotland and writing about the places I visit. I occasionally write poetry, short stories and memoirs. I illustrate my articles with photographs when what I see is lovely. 

I write for fun and for serious and some of it gets published.  I also write about  things which affect women’s lives and the injustices that affect everyone’s lives.