Robin is the Project’s third Director. He came aboard at the beginning of 2022, on his retirement after nearly thirty-six years’ service, from the County Record Office. Well known as a writer and speaker on local military history, Robin has appeared on national television, and, in 2018, chaired the county conference on the commemoration of the Great War.
Robin has published a number of books and essays on a variety of topics, from a study of Leicester’s Base Hospital in the Great War to an account of the Crimean War through Leicestershire eyes and the biography of Major General Charles Blackader. He has also published several local photographic histories, including ‘then and now’ views of Leicestershire’s towns and a history of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment.
Robin brings a lifetime’s experience of research, not only his own but also of assisting others with theirs, and many local contacts to the project. He was delighted to be invited to join the team and to find that skills, built up over nearly four decades working in local archives, might after all be both transferable and valuable elsewhere.
