1965 –Tempo – magazine for staff and patient of St George’s Hospital, Morpeth
One of its editors and contributor of an article – Border Feud -Victorian Style (between North British Railway and North Eastern Railway in Northumberland)
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy – a Case History when post-registration student nurse
1966 – Nursing Mirror
1980’s – translation from French for Community Psychiatric Nursing Journal
1980’s – translation from italian for Community Psychiatric Nursing Journal
1980’s – Nursing Times
1980 – Donizetti Society Journal 4 (Pages 241-6)
1988 – Donizetti Society Journal 6 (Pages 163-92)
c. 1990 Irelands Own/
in Meyerbeer und das europäische Musiktheater, Sieghart Döhring / Arnold Jacobshagen (editors) Laaber Verlag (Pages 386-406)
1993 – Professional Nurse
MA Thesis –Definition of mental health, based on primary, secondary and tertiary principles of health promotion; a review of and teaching about it in Community Psychiatric Nursing Courses within UK and curriculum proposals. 1993 – MA (Dunelm) in Adult Education
2005 – Australian Railway History Journal, Version 56, no. 817
2005 – The New Zealand Railway Observer Railway Observer, Version 62, Page 46
2006 – North Eastern Express, Version 45
2013 – Australian Railway History Journal, Version 64, no. 903
2019 AGEUK – Burnhope profile
An account of the development of the line from Goulburn to Cooma and the to Bombala in southern New South Wales
(Accepted for publication by Australian Railway History Society Journal in 2018)
The last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the North Eastern Railway. This biography portrays the man how the man developed his engineering learning. as well as working with n the social, political scene both locally and nationally of the time as husband parent, manager and employer.
(Published as a paperback in 2005 by Tempus Publishing, Stroud and e-book 2014 by successor History Press)
and reprinted in 2021
An Italian – born composer who studied at Naples Conservatorio, made a name for himself in Italy, went to Napoleonic France and became Empress Josephine’s personal composer. After sometime at Restoration court of Bourbon LouisXVIII, he left for the Berlin after being head-hunted by Prussian King FrederickWilliam III. He exercised an important influence on Berlioz and Weber and Wagner. The book looks at the religious, political, cultural and musical background in the 3 countries he lived in.
Published as a paperback in May 2013 by Authorhouse. This is the first full length English biography of him. There is also an I-Movie
He was Gracie Field’s pianist, composer and friend and his achievements in the British light music scene from being a child prodigy to song writing youth on to revues and musicals, set against the social, musical, film making and military background of the 1930’s, the second World War and the ensuing peace before his early death.
NB (This was published as a 50 000 word paperback and e-book in 2015. The author has completed an I-movie developed from former Keynote presentation.
A Musical Prodigy from South Wales
This will coincide with an updated version of the book above, retitled and published March 2020. It adds more than 20 000 words to the original because the author has discovered much new material concerning Harry and his music.)
He provided railway station buildings of quality for Irish and East Anglian and East Midland railways. A founder member of an insurance company (precursor of Aviva).
Paperback e-book published by York Publishing Services in August 2017 as well as a Keynote presentation.
This biography arose because Merz worked with Sir Vincent Raven. It in turn lead me to an exploration of an amazingly prolific life as a consultant electrician. Born in Gateshead, he pioneered British rail electrification, power stations and introduced the concept of a National Grid at first locally, then nationally and globally. His worked spanned 40 years – a period of busy political and social change up to World War Two.
(Paperback and e-book to be published in 2021)
His life and family cover much of Irish history to provide a social biography of an Irish aristocrat, his career as a railway engineer and manager in Dublin, Gateshead and elsewhere.
(Paperback and e-book to be published in about 2022)
This is a biography of a talented Jew from a wealthy Berlin family. A prodigy at the piano and at composing, he left Berlin to study in Darmstadt and Italy. Like Spontini, he went on to Paris and back to Berlin. His influence lasted throughout the Victorian period and beyond.
This is the first English biography for possible publication in 2024.
He the last son of distinguished Church of England Bishop of Shrewsbury Sir Lovelace Tomlinson Stamer, (1839-1908), he attended Rubgy School, became a pupil draughtsman at Beyer Peacock and Company, before joinign NER in 1891. Rising theought the ranks, became assistant CHief ~Mechanical engineer for wilson Worsdell, Vincent Raven and after 1923, Nigel Gresley. He retired in 1933, living for another 10 years.
(Paperback and e-book to be published about 2022
Northumbrian Railway Locomotive Engineer Pioneer Edward Fletcher (1807-1889)
He was Raven’s mentor, was apprenticed himself to Robert Stephenson, gaining experience in Kent and York, before becoming the first Locomotive Superintendent of North Eastern Railway,where he worked to update loocomotives from 1854 until he retired in 1882.
Of Italian Catholic origin, but London-born, he came a a young man to North east as Durham County bridge surveyor, responsible for many bridges, churches, private houses and public buildings mainly in Durham, North Yorkshire and after becoming an Anglican, built Waldensian churches in Piedmont region of Italy.
(Book and e-book to be published about late 2022).
