User:Martin Wyatt

Brought up mainly in West and East Africa. B A in modern history (Oxford 1964), Diploma in Public and Social Administration (Oxford 1966). Career running voluntary organisations. M A in Policy and Social Studies (Sheffield Hallam 2001). My main area of expertise is in running voluntary organisations, and my one article in a refereed academic journal was on government policy towards them. My interests now lie in literature, history (especially Quaker history), biography, social studies (inc geography), and social policy.

I find that using the Userplan is just too difficult. What comes up does not correspond to the instructions.

Workplan:

I want to write about the history of the housing association movement, but, having obtained some information on this subject, it appears to me to be a neglected area.

I shall probably do more on English and Scottish writers, as topics occur to me.

Likewise British biography and British Quaker history, where I have an uncompleted article.

In the next few weeks, I hope to do something untypical, on the Uganda Railway, a topic close to me, as I travelled on it in the 1950's. --Martin Wyatt 20:23, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

In the course of writing about William Blake, I came across a topic whose neglect so far seems quite as surprising as Gandhi (this I attempted to remedy) - Michelangelo. I do not dare write anything on Michelangelo, apart from a definition. --Martin Wyatt 21:31, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

An aside

I have recently made several contributions on topics on which I have no particular expertise, but which I happen to know about. It seems to me that as long as I am cautious in making assertions, it is better for this information to appear. I hope that those more expert will expand these edits, but I doubt whether they can be contradicted. --Martin Wyatt 21:31, 9 March 2013 (UTC)