I’m a writer and journalist with a keen interest in history and politics. I have been MailOnline’s History Correspondent since January 2021.
Before taking on the role, I was a home news reporter and had ‘graduated’ from MailOnline’s two-year trainee scheme in September 2020. As a result, I have also had experience on the foreign news, showbiz, health and Femail desks.
Since I began focusing on history, I have broken a series of exclusives, including the news in the summer of 2021 that Westminster Council was intending to replace its historic and much-loved gas lamps with LED alternatives. More recently, I was the first British journalist to report on groundbreaking research that revealed the likely fate of the remains of the men who fought at the Battle of Waterloo. I am also now presenting regular history-themed video features, such as this recent one about the veracity of execution scenes in films.
I have been a qualified journalist since July 2018, when I graduated from an NCTJ-accredited MA course at the University of Kent’s Centre for Journalism. In September 2018, I started on the graduate scheme at MailOnline. As part of that, I worked as a reporter for the Liverpool Echo for ten weeks, and then spent four weeks at the SWNS agency in Birmingham. I then returned to London in February 2019 to start in the MailOnline newsroom.
Outside of journalism and academia, I was a member of the trustee board of the cancer charity Young Lives vs Cancer (formerly CLIC Sargent), from September 2017 until December this year. My role involved the representation of the charity at public events, scrutiny of board documents, and the financial oversight of the charity. It was an extremely rewarding experience. You can read more about how I became involved with Young Lives on my ‘Charity Work‘ page.