Academic posts:
Tutor in Social Science, International Politics, Popular Culture
- The Open University.
Hon. Research Fellow in International Relations - University
of Aberdeen.
Hon. Research Fellow in Cultural History - University
of Aberdeen.
Lecturer in Modern British History - Shanghai
International Studies University, China.
Lecturer in Modern British History - Guangdong
University of Foreign Studies, China.
In 1992 he was offered the post of Assistant Professor of English
at Dongduk
Women's University.
in Seoul, South Korea. He declined it, returning
to the UK to establish Desert
Island Books.
This has grown to become one of Britain's leading sports publishers.
He also publishes the largest specialist library on the works
of Bram Stoker.
Countless radio interviews.
Early TV appearances:
1982, "Open Forum", documentary by The
Open University.
1983, Granada Television's
The Krypton Factor. He finished last.
1984, interviewed about Dracula by Neil Mudie of BBC
Scotland.
1985, interviewed about Dracula by Anne MacKenzie of Grampian
Television.
1986, interviewed about the Public Lending Right by Anne MacKenzie
of Grampian Television.
Countries lived in:
Saudi Arabia
China
South Korea
Significant journeys:
North Korea; South Korea; China (before, during and after the
Tiananmen uprising); Japan;
Philippines; Venezuela up the Orinoco; Mexico; Peruvian Andean
villages where few have been;
hitch-hiking around Newfoundland (photo above); Ghana (robbed
and arrested); Gabon;
many Arab lands (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Oman);
Cape Verde Islands; Brazil; Devil's Island; Azores.
BOOKS AND JOURNALISM:
Books written, annotated, or edited
(in chronological order):
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