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About “Ralph Harrington recreates the nineteenth-century world of English railway travel with the skill of a gifted novelist” - André LeBlanc, Harvard University [*] This site is owned by me, Ralph Harrington. It is intended to act as a source of information and a showcase for my work in scholarly research and writing. Here you will find details of publications, unpublished papers, information about current projects, a list of links, and contact details. It will also feature various miscellaneous projects, ideas and presentations as they occur to me and I have time to put them together. I am an independent scholar and freelance writer and researcher, working mainly on topics in modern history. I have worked as an academic historian for some years, most recently as a lecturer in history at the University of York, and have researched, written, published, lectured and taught on a wide range of topics. I am currently a tutor with the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Hull, and a geosciences student at the Open University (Certificate in Natural Sciences, 2005). I also work as a freelance editor and publisher’s reader. I studied at King’s College London, part of the University of London, where I gained a First Class Degree in History in 1993, and at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, where in 1994 I gained the degree of Master of Studies (MSt) in Modern History with Distinction, and in 1999 achieved the status of Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) for my thesis on ‘The Neuroses of the Railway’. Before going to university as a mature student I had a successful career as a graphic designer, cartographer and illustrator, working for (among others) the publishers Macmillan, Heinemann and Oxford University Press, Berkshire County Council and British Telecom. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, enquiries or offers of lucrative employment. For the latest news about the site and what I’m up to, click this way. Greycat also has a blog of its own, so why not pay it a visit. [* Source: review of Mark S. Micale & Paul Lerner (eds.), Traumatic Pasts: History and Trauma in the Modern Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, vol. 39, no. 2 (Spring 2003), p. 206.] Photograph of me by Sarah Powell. Yes, I really do write using that typewriter. © greycat.org