Royal Artillery, in Britain and Hong Kong, 1965-70;[4]British Council, in Bombay and Baghdad, 1972-77; the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (
UNRWA),[5] Beirut and Vienna, 1977-79; self-employed thereafter,
Oxfam[6] relief worker Lebanon 1982,[6] full-time research and writing from 1983.
Personal Life
Married to writer Elizabeth Laird,[7] in 1975; two children: Angus,[8] journalist, and William,[9] academic.
Selected Publications
Middle East
Lebanon: A Conflict of Minorities (Minority Rights Group, 1983), ISBN 0 946 690 07 3.
Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond (IBTauris, 1989), ISBN 1 85043 131 0, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990), ISBN 0-520 0602 1[10]
Europe and the Arabs: Discord or Symbiosis? (Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1992), ISBN 0 905031 53 9
Articles: ‘Clarity of Ambiguity? The Withdrawal Clause of Resolution 242’, International Affairs, vol. 90, no. 6, November 2014[15]
‘The Two-State Solution: What Europe must do and why’, Open Democracy, November, 2016[16]
Britain
An Illustrated History of Britain (Longman, 1989) ISBN 9780582749146
Britain in Close-up (Longman, 1993), ISBN 9780582064614
Hampstead Heath (co-authored by Deborah Wolton, Frances Lincoln 2007), ISBN 9780711226531
Children’s Books
The Palestinians (Franklin Watts, 1986), ISBN 978 0 86313 484 5, winner of The Other Award 1987[17]
The Columbus Project Book (Hodder, 1992), ISBN 9780340527801
The Spanish Armada (Batsford, 1988), ISBN 9780713456714.
British Landscape Guides (self-published)
Richmond Park: The Walker’s Guide (1996, 2006), ISBN 9780952784746
Hampstead Heath: The Walker’s Guide co-author Deborah Wolton, (1998, 2021), ISBN 9781838198015
The Thames from Hampton to Richmond Bridge: The Walker’s Guide (2002), ISBN 9780952784722
The Thames from Richmond to Putney Bridge: The Walker’s Guide (2005), ISBN 9780952784739
Windsor Great Park: The Walker’s Guide (2007, 2021), ISBN 9781838198008.
Bute: A Guide (2010) ISBN 9780952784777
West Surrey: Walks into History (2013) ISBN 9780952784784
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