Growing up, I distrusted history, because I knew that it was wrong. Churchill's words, "History shall be kind to me because I intend to write it," goaded me into becoming involved with starting a website, Polish History New Zealand, in 2012. It nearly imploded three years later, but a chance meeting with an IT angel, and my need not to let down the people I had already interviewed and wrote about, made changing direction, but not subject, an obvious choice.  

I've drawn from my old-school journo skills, and have blessed a degree I did when I was in my 40s. I majored in psychology and communication science, and minored in information science, which taught me to think and research critically. I like to believe that my regular reads of English grammar books have improved my writing.  

I have always been an outsider - born in England with a foreign name and parents who spoke "funny" - and have immigrated twice. My grandparents are my inspiration. Both my grandfathers died in Europe in WW2, and my grandmothers, who refused to return to communist-controlled post-war Poland, ended up in England. 
 

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