автор: Peter S. Chapman

Peter S. Chapman enjoyed a career in housing, founding a niche consultancy firm. He is a non-executive director of several companies. He has been Chair of a number of charities in his fields of interest, including the Levantine Foundation (working on manuscript restoration projects in Egypt), the Friends of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (where he sponsored an annual lecture for a decade) and a local youth charity, Kensington Dragons Football Club. Living in London, he retains close links with the North East. He is an active member of the South Shields Local History Group, having delivered two lectures on themes from A Tyneside Heritage. He has written numerous articles and edited housing reports and publications. This is his first book.