Discovering Historical Sources is a project led by the British Library to increase access to historical sources in educational settings. As a historian of the English Atlantic world, I aided the project by writing an introductory guide on the development of the English colonies in the Americas for teachers and students and provided advice and copy-editing on curatorial material accompanying a set of sources related to seventeenth-century Virginia and Massachusetts.

In the Spring of 2026, I drew on my academic study of historic collections and seventeenth-century history, as well as my background in secondary history teaching, to work with the Huguenot Museum on developing the museum’s learning resources. This included writing a 10,000-word report mapping connections between the museum’s collection and the curriculum at KS3, 4, and 5, as well as the creation of a series of enquiries and in-person museum sessions.

In 2023, I secured funding to work within the world-leading Asian Export and American collections of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, as part of my PhD project. It was an invaluable opportunity and I came home with a Salem-appropriate forearm tattoo, as you do.

In 2022-2023, I was a researcher on a National Trust project investigating Indigenous American and First Nations connections to National Trust collections and sites. Working with UK-based curators and Indigenous advisors, I authored a 25,000-word report examining the kidnapping of five Abenaki men — Nahanedo, Amoret, Skicowares, Maneddo, and Assacomoit —who were brought to England in the reign of James I. This report integrated archival research, Indigenous oral histories, material culture, and archaeology. It presented a comprehensive history of Nahanedo and his men’s experiences, how their story challenges myths of discovery and reveals a rich and engaging history of negotiation and resistance, as well as the enduring legacies of colonialism on affected communities in the present-day Canadian Maritimes, Maine, and New England.

During my time with BBC Bitesize, I led the drafting of the architecture, proposed text, archival video clips, and games for a new suite of guides as part of a major overhaul of BBC Bitesize's offerings. In this role, I revised the text on the legacy of the British Empire and on migration to Britain guides, and planned and wrote guides from scratch on the Black Tudors, society in sixteenth-century England, and the Henrician Reformation.

Between 2013 and 2021, I taught history in South London, working at Saint Gabriel's, Camberwell, before undertaking my PGCE at IOE in 2014. After my PGCE, I taught at the Charter School, North Dulwich, before taking up the role of Head of History at St Thomas Apostle College, Peckham. I remain very proud of my time in teaching, which was marked by consistently outstanding outcomes for my students.

Drawing on my experience as a teacher and my academic interest in early America, I crafted a series of resources and schemes of work on the presence of Indigenous Americans in Britain for the University of Kent’s Beyond the Spectacle project.