BBC History Magazine
The August 2025 issue of “Britain’s best-selling history magazine” included a feature written by me, which introduces some of my favourite boxers active over the 1880s – the ‘dying decade’ of barefist boxing. Over five pages, there are stories about Alf Ball, Hezekiah Moscow, the Sisters Mills, Jem Smith and Henry ‘Sugar’ Goodson. The article features on the front cover and I’m one of four contributors highlighted on the magazine’s introductory page!
Noche de Boxeo
My first interview for a foreign-language audience! This May 2025 interview with Spanish boxing and boxing history website Noche de Boxeo is a long-read (in Spanish) about why I love my 1880s boxers and their stories (especially the bad boys); why it is so important that A Thousand Blows had a Black and Asian writing and production team and cast; and how I got a bit emotional meeting ‘Hezekiah’ walking and breathing on set. Check it out (Google Translate is your friend and mine).
HistFest – All Things History podcast
In April 2025 I recorded a podcast for Rebecca Rideal’s All Things History podcast, discussing with Isabel Wilson how I began my research journey; the true stories behind A Thousand Blows; and why entertainment like A Thousand Blows is so vital for bringing stories of the real multicultural 1880s London to public view.
A Thousand Blows – Disney+ and Hulu
Across 2022-2023 I worked as a historical consultant (on the boxing, boxers, and a few other random late-Victorian things) for the brilliant, amazingly-reviewed, global smash-hit historical drama A Thousand Blows from Water and Power, the Story Collective, and Matriarch Productions. It was created by Steven Knight and part-inspired by my research into Hezekiah Moscow and Alec Munroe.
On 5 March 2025 I was the host at an A Thousand Blows ‘activation’ organised by marketing agency Axe & Saw with event producer Jessica Sparkes, for Disney. After speaking to journalists and content creators at the Sebright Arms, I took them on a tour of East London in a horse-drawn Victorian omnibus to the Dusty Knuckle bakery to discuss the show’s real history alongside Professor David Olusoga. Resulting media coverage included pieces in Southwark News and Hackney Gazette.
BBC History Extra
I was an invited guest on the BBC History Extra podcast for an episode titled Bruisers and bare knuckles: the brutal world of Victorian boxing. The podcast was also turned into a YouTube video with Hallie Rubenhold and a written piece published on the BBC History Extra website (A Thousand Blows: the real history behind the Victorian boxing drama).
The Guardian
Professor David Olusoga talked about my research into Hezekiah Moscow in his interview with Jason Okundaye for The Guardian (How A Thousand Blows recovers the lost history of a lion-taming West Indian boxer), describing me as an authority on Hezekiah’s story and my work as an inspiration for A Thousand Blows. A second feature on the history of Black boxers (From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars) by Lanre Bakare describes my research on Hezekiah as ‘meticulous’!
Metro, The Mirror, and more
I was interviewed by Deputy TV Editor Sabrina Barr for a Metro feature on the true stories behind A Thousand Blows, focusing on Hezekiah Moscow and Sugar Goodson (The true story behind ‘phenomenal’ historical drama hailed better than Peaky Blinders). Across the A Thousand Blows campaign, my research has also been used as a source by lots of other media – some credited, some not – including a feature on Hezekiah Moscow which appeared on The Mirror and Express websites (A Thousand Blows true story: Who is Hezekiah Moscow? Inside the real-life aspired lion tamer turned champion boxer), and a piece on Biography.
Pro Wrestling History Nerds
You can hear me nervously contributing toward a podcast about Charles ‘Parson’ Davies, Evan ‘The Strangler’ Lewis and Jack Wannop, here.
Lewisham Ledger
I’ve written a couple of pieces for the Lewisham Ledger’s print and digital versions. The first (June 2019) was called Grappling With History and focused on local man, the wrestler and boxer Jack Wannop. The second in November 2022 (May The Force) was about Miss Juno May, a 6ft 2 Edwardian wrestler who was supposedly born in Brockley.
Women Love Wrestling: An anthology on women & wrestling
I contributed a chapter on Jack Wannop to a fundraising book called Women Love Wrestling. Mick Foley said: “Very well written, I am really enjoying it. I have been so impressed by the writers and their passion for the subject”. You can buy it on Amazon.
National Archives: The Boxers of Whitechapel
In 2022 the National Archives turned my research on Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, and Moscow’s wife Mary Ann and child Eliza into a resource pack for Key Stage 4 students to learn about Victorian Whitechapel and migration histories. I’m possibly even more proud of it than I am of A Thousand Blows. Feedback has been great – I occasionally get messages from teachers telling me they use it in their classrooms. It’s available online and as a PDF to download and print.
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine
I wrote a very, very, condensed feature on the entirety of Victorian wrestling and boxing (Bare-knuckle boys: The history of Victorian boxing and wrestling) for WDYTYA’s paper magazine and website, giving a considerable amount of my wordcount to the story of Tom Thompson and Steve the Donkey.
Parakeets (who did not box or wrestle)
In 2019 I contributed toward a research paper for the Journal of Zoology titled Understanding the origins of the ring-necked parakeet in the UK, led by the late, brilliant, and much-missed Dr Steve Le Comber at Queen Mary. As both a Goldsmiths student at the time and the university’s press officer, I wrote our press release, and we received media coverage around the world. I appeared on BBC Inside Science. Some other highlights include Guardian, Sky News, BBC News, Telegraph, Forbes, Independent etc…
Rediscovering the wrestlers and boxers of Late-Victorian London 