Charles Moseley

Peasant, Travel Writer, autobiographer, literary critic and historian. And everyone says, ‘an accomplished lecturer and public speaker and can write like an angel’. How they could know I do not know…

Where do I begin? (apart from the obvious, where we all do.) What do I do? Well, I teach, lecture, write books, grow organic food – your vegetables taste better if you have had soil under your fingernails - and look after the little house in the country that has been home for so many years. I hope I have been a good steward of the good earth other people, whose broken tools I sometimes dig up, have worked before me. When I can I travel: in Europe mainly in the winter as the English summer and Autumn can be too lovely to miss and I do not like being hot, and in summer, when I get the chance, to high latitudes north or south. I have been fortunate enough to be invited to lecture on cruise boats in places as far apart as Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego and Spitsbergen, and under my own steam I have travelled through Greenland, Spitsbergen, and most of the north Atlantic Islands. And I have written extensively about these travels and what they came to mean in several of my books which go off my academic patch. But if you want to see what my recent lectures have been – excluding those academic ones on mediaeval and early modern literature given in Cambridge and elsewhere - you can look on my website: charlesmoseley.com