Current work

In July 2021, I officially became the Mail’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 the Mail’s two-year trainee scheme.

Last October, I was promoted to history editor. I have published hundreds of stories on topics 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.

I am also privileged to get the chance to do extraordinary things away from my desk. In March 2025, I flew in a two-seater Spitfire above IWM Duxford. It was the experience of a lifetime. My resulting write-up told the story of the Spitfire’s remarkable contribution to Britain’s war effort.

My exclusives have included the news 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 its replacement programme and keep most of the existing lamps.

I was also 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 2023 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.

And in January 2025, I became the first British journalist to tour the former home of monstrous Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess. As depicted in hit film The Zone of Interest, he lived in the property with his wife and children. I came across chilling evidence of their occupation when I visited.

I also 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 regularly commission historians to write for the Mail. Bestselling historian Damien Lewis has written for us on several occasions. His most recent piece can be found here: The most remarkable escape of WWII? SAS soldier’s journey to safety through FIVE countries after unit was dropped over occupied Sicily too high and in the wrong place, historian DAMIEN LEWIS reveals.

Commissioned Highlights

2025

– Britain’s secret sabotage plan to end WWII: How makeshift pistols and ‘fire kits’ were dropped to prisoners in Germany as defeat loomed for Hitler, reveals historian JAMES CROSSLAND

–‘It was all men. It got a bit boisterous’: Britain’s oldest female WWII veteran, 107, reveals how war ravaged nation celebrated VE Day

– Why legendary SAS commander Paddy Mayne MUST get the Victoria Cross: Historian DAMIEN LEWIS urges MPs to correct ‘clerical error’ that denied WWII hero top award

2024

– How Britain’s film industry fooled Hitler before D-Day: Movie technicians built fake tanks and landing craft to make the Nazis think Allies would invade France near Calais rather than at Normandy, writes historian TAYLOR DOWNING

– The secret plan for ‘D-Day Two’ if Normandy landings had failed: SAS team led by one-armed Frenchman parachuted into Nazi-held Brittany night before June 6, 1944 to seize port and enable Allies to invade, reveals historian DAMIEN LEWIS

– Horrible Histories creator TERRY DEARY reveals why we ALL need enemies: Elizabeth I’s defeat of the Spanish Armada made her Gloriana, and Britain standing alone against Hitler united the nation

– 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

2025

– EXCLUSIVE Inside the secret tunnels under London where ‘Ian Fleming dreamed up James Bond in WWII’

– The Spitfire was the iconic plane that helped Britain win WWII. Now as the nation remembers the defeat of Hitler 80 years ago, HARRY HOWARD finds out first-hand what made it so formidable

– Meet the man who has created an exact replica of a First World War trench that has been visited by thousands… after building one by his BACK GARDEN

– The mystery behind Britain’s worst ever Tube crash: Fifty years after Moorgate disaster claimed 43 lives, questions remain over why driver did not stop – as fireman remembers battle to rescue survivors

– ‘Margaret Thatcher’s downfall had the inevitability of a Greek tragedy’: The truth behind Channel 4’s ‘Brian and Maggie’ retelling of brutal 1989 TV grilling is revealed by late PM’s closest aides

2024

– Hitler’s puppet king: Edward VIII’s fury when asked if he had been offered a return to the throne by Nazi dictator had Germany won WWII

– Did the son of tragic King Harold flee to Poland? Historian says skeleton found in 1966 belongs to Magnus – and claims he became a Polish nobleman after William the Conqueror defeated his father in 1066

– I’m ‘friends’ with the Brighton bomber… even though he killed my dad: Peace campaigner Jo Berry has shared a platform with Patrick Magee more than 300 times – but her brother has taken a very different path

– Inside Margaret Thatcher’s hotel room moments after she narrowly survived Brighton bombing 40 years ago

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 Mail’s 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 on the Mail’s trainee scheme, I worked on a freelance basis for the education section of the newspaper. 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