Retired Academic.

Fees given to SHAPE, a charity on St Helena

Member of Friends of St Helena. Contributor to their publications.

• "The Legend of the Slaves of Maldivia", Wirebird, The Journal of the Friends of St Helena, Number 43, November 2014
• "The Belle Poule and the Exhumation of Napoleon", Wirebird Number 40, 2011
• "Longwood House: Towards the Bicentenary", The St Helena Connection No 15, November 2013
• "The British Government and Napoleon: From Elba to St Helena" The St Helena Connection, No 18 June 2015
• "From Elba to St Helena aTimeline of 1815" The St Helena Connection, No 18 June 2015
• "Napoleon and the British Opposition during the Captivity" The St Helena Connection No 19, November 2015
• "Napoleon and St Helena Exhibition at Les Invalides, Paris" No 20 June 2016
• "Napoleon's Representative on Earth: "I am the keeper of the empty tomb" - a review of "Je suis le gardien du tombeau vide" by M. Dancoisne-Martineau. The St Helena Connection No 23 November 2017
• "St Helena in Transition" No 14, May 2013
• "Who is, when is, what is St Helena Government", The St Helena Connection No 33, December 2022

Blogging on Napoleon and St Helena since 2008. https://johntyrrell.blogspot.com