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Welcome to my personal publishing project. Here I present various articles, essays and imaginitive writing that I have produced over the years.
You will (in time) find items on history, politics, art and other subjects. You will also discover my short fiction, mostly prepared for the Dulwich U3A Creative Writing Group of which I have been a member since 2022. I am also offering autobiographical items from my website entitled 50 Years Ago Today.
Any item may be read online or downloaded free of charge.
Please navigate to whatever interests you by clicking at the top left hand corner, or click on the item's title in the Contents page below.
If you wish to copy or re-publish any item, in any format, please contact me for licensing arrangements. All items are copyright.
Derek Perry.
Email: derek.at.metier@gmail.com
CONTENTS
To access an item, click on its title below.
For main headings, go to the navigation bar at the top left of the page.
Autobiography / Memoir
Autobiographical notes, including growing up in Birmingham in the 1950s and 60s, leaving home at age 19, discovering London, going to university, and other experiences.
50 Years Ago Today : introduction
Places I Remember
Descriptions of some of the places I have experienced over the years.
History Matters
My claim to be a historian derives from a Master of Arts degree in 'History of Ideas' awarded in 2012 by Birkbeck, University of London. My interests are the radical history of London, the history of the East India Company, and the history of Bengal.
Charles Bradlaugh: Early Days of a Victorian Radical
Short Fiction
I began writing fiction in 2022 when I joined a community history project to write historical fiction about the East India Company (see 'Seedlings' below). I later joined a Creative Writing Group at my local U3A and entered a couple of writing competitions. Here are some of my efforts...
A competition entry in 2023 on the theme of 'Green'.
A short story for a writing competition in the Coronation Year of 2023.
A short story about the East India Company and the 'Spice Wars' of the early seventeenth century.
An exercise for the Creative Writing Group which became a personal tribute.
A short piece about a scarecrow.
An exercise in very short fiction - in a single sentence.
The Exquisite Loneliness of a Popinjay
A parrot with a mind of its own.
An exercise.
From Occupied Paris, 1940s.
A story about my grand-daughter's stuffed rabbit.
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