I am an accredited Green Badge Tour Guide, an Associate of the Institute of Tourist Guiding and Chair of the Bury St Edmunds Association of Registered Tour Guides. I am the author of ‘A Neat and Beautiful Theatre: The Story of Bury St Edmunds Market Cross' (2024).

I was a professional archaeologist for over forty years, serving as county archaeologist for Hereford and Worcester, Cheshire and Cambridgeshire. I have excavated in East Anglia, the Midlands, Yorkshire, the North West, Wales, Orkney, Italy and Libya. I am a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.