Hi, I’m Sam, and welcome to Life & Other Stories.

I’m a television producer and archive researcher, and I’ve worked on projects for all the major UK broadcasters. I’m also a PhD researcher, scouring historical books and manuscripts for traces of people learning Arabic in sixteenth century England.

I love history and I love storytelling. I particularly love how combining the two can breathe new life into the past.

Life & Other Stories is an online home for my work, and a place where these two passions can meet.