Other Projects
Graffiti & Protection Marks in Shropshire churches
This is a long term, independent project concerning the observation and recording of graffiti and protection marks in churches, especially in Shropshire.
Leaving a mark in wood and stone is an ancient way for people to record their presence, especially those without writing skills. Whether a medieval carpenter or mason wanting protection as they work on a cathedral tower or a poor family carving the name of their dead son in a church pillar these are ways we can make a connection with the lesser known people of our past, the commoners, the peasants, the artisans and even soldiers.
Tales & Tribulations: Past lives of a South Shropshire Hill
March 2021
This is something I have been working on for a while now, inspired by people & landscape of a largely, long forgotten south Shropshire Hill called Brown Clee.
It has dovetailed neatly into other work, for example, An Acre of Land with Polly Bolton and research for Matt Williams & Fearn Archaeology as part of the Uplands Commons Project.
The intention is to publish a selection of stories and lore related to this forgotten part of Shropshire.
An Acre of Land
April 2024
A collaboration between myself and folk singer/ environmentalist Polly Bolton in celebrations of the hill where we live in the south Shropshire Hills.
We use folklore, social history and folk songs to tell the story of this remote part of Shropshire which stretches over hundreds of years from Iron Age settlements to a great Saxon hunting forest and later, enclosure and mining
