After retiring from the civil service in 2006, I started researching and writing a biography of Dame Janet Vaughan. I had seen Polly Toynbee interviewing her on TV in a series first broadcast in 1984 and titled Women of Our Century. She was the scientist among the six women featured, but also a pathologist, social reformer and, without being an overt feminist, influential advocate for women’s rights. The biography was published June 2024  titled Bloomsbury, Belsen, Oxford: Janet Vaughan, Medical Pioneer. The publisher is University of Chester Press, the price £19.99.

I am now working on the life of Dame Katharine Furse, one of the first ever Dames of the British Empire in 1917.

Publications: 

Bloomsbury, Belsen, Oxford: Janet Vaughan, Medical Pioneer, University of Chester Press 2024 

Archaeologies and Antiquaries: Essays by Dai Morgan Evans (Eds) Howard Williams, Kara Critchell and Sheena Evans, Archaeopress Archaeology 2022

Articles:

Janet Vaughan: A Non-Feminist Fighter for Women’s Rights? Women’s History Today 11, Autumn 2024, 13-21.

Don’t Rush the Biography! Somerville Magazine 2024, 30-31. Published by Somerville College Oxford.

Give till it hurts: Janet Vaughan and Spanish Medical Aid. Women’s History Magazine 69 2012, 18-25.