WHO I AM...
I've spent my career as a professional historian with particular interests in business history and Latin America. I first visited Peru and Bolivia as a PhD student in the early 1970s and have returned many times since. I have also researched in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, and travelled in Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Colombia. Having retired from the University of Liverpool in 2017, I remain research-active and involved with the graduates of the MBA (Football Industries), which I co-founded in 1997.
My Background
Born in north London, I spent the first few years of my childhood in Highbury before my parents moved first to mid-Sussex, and then to Hampshire. This explains why I support Arsenal in football and Sussex in cricket! My father's family came from the North East of England so we visited relations on Tyneside every year, but my mother's family had been firmly London-based since the mid-nineteenth century.
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After completing an undergraduate History degree at Queens' College, Cambridge, I remained there to study for a PhD in Latin American history, which included over a year living in Peru and Bolivia. I was then fortunate enough to obtain a lecturing post at the University of Liverpool. I worked at Liverpool for over forty years, initially in the History department and Institute of Latin American Studies, and later in the Management School. I retired in 2017, but continue to do research in and on Latin America.
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I have lived in Chester since 1980 but enjoy spending time in other parts of the country, especially mid-Sussex and Northumberland, as well as the Lake District and North Yorkshire. Outside work, I love sport (although the only one that I now play is golf -- very poorly), fell-walking, occasional bird-watching, taking photographs, and travelling.