Current work

In July 2021, I officially became MailOnline’s first ever History Correspondent, after doing the role on an unofficial trial basis for six months. Before that, I was a home news reporter, having graduated from MailOnline’s two-year trainee scheme.

In my history role, I have published hundreds of stories on everything ranging from the Romans and sex in the medieval period to Winston Churchill, the sinking of the Titanic and the destruction of London’s architectural heritage on the altar of brutalism.

I have broken dozens of exclusives in that time, including the news in 2021 that Westminster Council was intending to replace its historic and much-loved gas lamps with LED alternatives.

Following my coverage, there was significant public backlash from heritage bodies and campaigners and the council eventually agreed to stop stop its replacement programme and keep most of the existing lamps.

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. This news was followed up in January by the discovery of the remains of ten British and Prussian victims of the battle in two homes in Belgium. Remarkably, the skull of one of the men – complete with horrific war wounds – was found taking pride of place in an old woman’s living room.

I had a key role in the coverage of the deaths of both the Duke of Edinburgh and Her Late Majesty The Queen; giving readers more of a historical insight into their incredible lives.

When the Queen’s coffin lay-in-state in Westminster Hall, I wrote about the experience of being able to witness the sight of people coming to pay their respects.

I have also had experience of commissioning and editing in my role. In October 2023, I commissioned bestselling historian Damien Lewis to write about the wartime SAS’s destruction of Sicily’s shore guns, a mission echoed in 1961 war film The Guns of Navarone.

Author Beezy Marsh has also written for us about both a campaign to honour 26 female members of the ATS who were killed in a German bomb attack in the Second World War and the matriarchs of London’s criminal underworld in the 1950s.

Commissioned Highlights

2024

– Why the vandals who cut down Captain Cook’s statue are wrong: Historian JEREMY BLACK explains why famous navigator who charted Australia and New Zealand is an unfair target of anti-colonial mob

2023

– The REAL Guns of Navarone: Author DAMIEN LEWIS reveals how Paddy Mayne’s SAS triumphed in 1943 mission to blow up Nazi shore guns in Sicily despite being outnumbered 50-1 – in raid echoed in 1961 Gregory Peck epic

– Mystery of the Bone Chests of Winchester Cathedral: Historian CAT JARMAN on how Emma of Normandy, twice Queen of England, is the only woman so far to be discovered among 1,300 bone fragments of Anglo Saxon rulers

– Poland’s Europe minister ARKADIUSZ MULARCZYK insists Germany must pay £1.1TRILLION in reparations for damage wrought by the Nazis as his country marks anniversary of Hitler’s attack on Gdansk which triggered WWII in 1939

– Global interest, rumours that everyone was alive, demands for an inquiry, delayed distress calls and owners trying to make as much money as they could: Historian TIM MALTIN reveals eerie parallels between Titan Five and original doomed Titanic passengers

2022

– Mission to honour the 26 WWII servicewomen killed by Nazi bombs: Author BEEZY MARSH tells tragic story of the ATS girls who died in 1943 strike on their billet in Great Yarmouth hotel… and the campaign for their recognition

2021

– Britain’s WWI generals were NOT donkeys leading lions: Historian NICK LLOYD argues condemned Field Marshall Douglas Haig deserves more sympathy… as we remember the millions of fallen on Armistice Day

– The matriarchs of the criminal underworld in 1950s London: Author BEEZY MARSH investigates history behind women who combined motherhood and marriage with a career on the wrong side of the law

Exclusives highlights

2023

– Historian Philippa Langley calls for DNA tests on skeletons buried in Westminster Abbey as she insists they’re NOT the Princes in the Tower after her bombshell findings

– Stand-off at Dambusters HQ: Protesters keeping 24/7 vigil outside RAF Scampton reveal battle to ‘save Britain’s heritage’ ahead of crunch court battle over plans to use historic airfield to house 2,000 asylum seekers

– Putin’s palace in the heart of Sussex: How the Russian government has owned palatial 50-room mansion since 1946… but the property has been targeted by locals since invasion of Ukraine

– Businessman says Britain has ‘very little to apologise for’ over slave trade as he raises funds for new £70,000 statue in honour of Royal Navy sailors who died helping to free more than 150,000 slaves

– Inside the world of UK’s Nazi re-enactors: How hundreds of Britons spend their spare time posing as Hitler’s genocidal forces in dozens of dress-up groups – as leading German historian says groups should show the murderous truth

– Collector who featured on BBC’s Antiques Road Trip is condemned for advertising £195 skulls and other human bones while boasting online that they are for their ‘more macabre collectors’

– Was your relative among THOUSANDS who had their photo taken in single WWI outdoor studio? Historians want relatives to send in their pictures after finding that hundreds of images captioned ‘Somewhere in France’ were taken on same part of the front line

2022

– Does this PIG SKIN experiment cast doubt on Jeremy Bamber’s conviction? Moment forensic scientist tests skin on Aga cooker to prove burns on body of White House killer’s father were from an oven – suggesting cops MOVED corpse before taking photos

– The men who gave everything after the horrors of war: 1920s archive images reveal WWI veterans making Remembrance poppies in historic factory that celebrates its centenary this year

– EXCLUSIVE: Have historians finally solved mystery over why only TWO skeletons have ever been found at Battle of Waterloo? Experts say bones of 20,000 British and French soldiers were ground down and used to make white sugar (midnight embargo)

2021

– ‘The silly old man with his umbrella’ who SAVED Britain: Author Robert Harris behind new Netflix film Munich says Neville Chamberlain is a ‘convenient’ scapegoat for WWII… but his ‘shrewd’ Appeasement deal with Hitler bought UK vital time to arm for war

– Tears of a monster: Unearthed WWI diary of German U-boat officer reveals his heartbreak at losing crewmates and pining for his girlfriend… before going on to order massacre of thousands of Jews in WWII

– The RAF ace of Beverly Hills: How British WWII pilot rubbed shoulders with Hollywood’s biggest stars from Marjorie Reynolds to ‘Tarzan’ Johnny Weissmuller while posted to flying school in California’s Mojave Desert

– London’s iconic gas lamps are being snuffed out: 300 Victorian lights that bathe Westminster in a ‘Dickensian glow’ and portray historical London in Hollywood films are replaced with ‘eco-friendly’ LEDs to tackle global warming

– Unsung hero of the Titanic: How chief stoker fought to keep the engines running as doomed ship took on water then stopped lifeboat crushing 70 escapees… but SURVIVED only to die from tuberculosis

You can read my full body of work here.

Past work

From the middle of September 2018 to December 21st 2019 I worked as a reporter at the Liverpool ECHO as part of the MailOnline graduate scheme. I enjoyed it enormously. It was my first job as a journalist and I learnt a lot.

All of my articles can be found here

Some highlights included this very moving story about a mother with terminal cancer who was trying to ensure that her last months with her children were happy ones – Amazing ways mum with incurable cancer is making sure her children remember her

The ECHO was a digital-first publication so I was primarily an online reporter but I did get some bylines in the paper, including an exclusive story that made the front page.

Before starting at MailOnline, I worked on a freelance basis for the education section of the Daily Mail newspaper in the summer of 2018. You can see some of the work I produced in that time below.

17 August 2018, joint byline, double page: Just a C-grade needed to get on top course