Profile

I completed a history PhD at the University of Dundee, following an earlier taught Masters. Previously I was a computer science student at the University of St Andrews, undergraduate and postgraduate, then studied history and classical studies with the Open University.

This blog was initially mainly used to note relevant things (dosage changes etc.) in managing my long-term MS-like illness (cerebral vasculitis). If I don't note them somewhere I'll forget information I need later, and this is as good a place as any, and far less losable than a bit of paper! I'll be updating the blog, but generally with restricted entries.

However now I often use it to write about books I'm reading (my PhD was on historic Scottish reading habits), television being watched, and other stuff. A lot of my posts are friends locked, but many are more widely open.