Other Interests

A selection of some of my photographs, dating from 1965.

Some pictures of my wife, children, grandchildren, myself and others.

Along with Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Mark Twain, Charles Chaplin, Walt Whitman, Henry James, William James, Sigmund Freud, Orson Welles, Enoch Powell, Joan Robinson, and many others, including the living actors Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Irons and Michael York, I think that there is reasonable doubt that William Shakspere of Stratford wrote the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare.

From 3-9 July 2008 I walked 141 kilometres through Velay and the Cévennes in France, following much of Robert Louis Stevenson's route in 1878.

My account of this journey is here.

I have researched the origins of the Hodgson surname, the history of my ancestors, and of some other Hodgsons.

This section reports my research on post-Roman Celtic survivals in two parts of England.

This page reports some DNA results from the DNA of myself and other members of my family.

Confessions of a railway enthusiast and advocate.