Welcome to the landing page. Talks and tours returned in 2023 and 2024 promises to be even busier. Contact me at nigelj.hinton1@gmail.com if you would like to arrange for a private tour of Shrewsbury and some of the other Shropshire towns.
Planning for the Darwin Festival 2024 is underway
The Festival will run throughout February with the main events 10-17 February 2024
https://originalshrewsbury.co.uk/see-do/events/darwin-childhood-tours
DarwIN Shrewsbury Festival (originalshrewsbury.co.uk)
If you would like to research Charles Darwin visit Shropshire Archives on Castle Gates
https://www.shropshirearchives.org.uk/blog/darwin-research-guide/
Watch BBC TV Bargain Hunt When Charlie Ross met me in Drapers Hall in Shrewsbury https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012wrl
See Drapers Hall when ITV News visited
Blog Posts
Thank you for stopping by. This website hosts most of my research projects so you can read a selection of my articles, talks, and find details of my books and links to other websites.
Get in touch
Please use the contact page or contact me on 07866 522781.
My books are available from all good local and national bookshops.
Mytton of Halston will be launched on 29 March 2023 , order from your local bookshop.
Other books available include
Wool, War and Health – You Caxton, 2020
At work in Shrewsbury – Amberley 2018
Shrewsbury Drapers Company 1462 – 2017 – You Caxton in 2017
Baa Baa Blodwyn – 2011
Silhouette – 2009
Historical Hostelries written with David Trumper – 2005
About me
These days I describe myself as a local historian, author, speaker and guide based in the beautiful town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK.
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