Intellectual Bolthole in the North East

English, German, French

From an intellectual perspective, I did my doctorate at Oxford on the Idea of the Great Man in Germany between Napoleon and Hitler in historiography using Alexander the Great as an illustration.( Much of the field work took place in Berlin which I loved. ) Prior to this, I did Greats at Pembroke College. The revelation being not my brilliance at Classics... but rather that my year constituted the first intake of women. (That truly dates me!) During my thesis, I began to work as a researcher for TV. Later I co-founded a production company with Chris Goddard - my now husband. He is the author of a book called Jazz Away from Home. The foundation and shape of the book grew out of interviews done in the 1970s with musicians and French cultural heavyweights who came to prominence in the 1920s. We kept the company going until around 2005 - specialising in social issues and current affairs .We won two prizes for our filming: Best Business Documentary Series and the Best European Political Documentary. Since then I have freelanced and ghost-written articles or done media strategy. If there’s a common thread here - it’s my fascination with politics and the structures of society. So it’s no coincidence that right now my husband and I are investigating the corrosive role of misinformation on our democratic process. We have a house between Toulouse and Carcassonne. The renovation should be complete in 2024 and then it will be posted on Sabbatical

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