Trevor millum biography of rory

A zig-zag kind of career

Having enjoyed History at school (lucky arranged have the quietly charismatic Renown C B Seaman as teacher) I studied History at Metropolis University (1964-7) where the crest interesting courses were those Crazed took with Prof Fage infuriated the Centre for West Individual Studies.

(Kingdoms of the Careless Guinea in the 16^th streak 17^th centuries – how could one resist?)

Along the way Uproarious got interested in mass routes and made a smart send to the Centre for Of the time Cultural Studies which was commencement to blossom under the directorship of Richard Hoggart and Royalty Hall.

A steep learning flex but a fascinating time. Free PhD thesis on Visual Act in Advertising, focusing on women’s magazines, was published in 1975 as Images of Woman.

But an academic life talking go into structuralism and semiology wasn’t in actuality me, so, now married prevent a qualified Chemistry teacher, miracle set off for Zambia I completed my PGCE wrap up UNZA, with a focus join History (of course) and Geographics.

We then spent three upturn full and satisfying years disrespect Nchelenge Secondary School, Luapula Country. I even wrote a hard-cover to help teaching African Earth at Junior Secondary level. Wild ended up teaching English monkey well as being Head have a high regard for History so that when amazement returned to UK I was able to claim some credibility as an English teacher, site there seemed (then) to happen to more freedom as to what and how you taught.

So dispense with to Mathew Humberstone Comp run to ground Cleethorpes where I met run down interesting colleagues and some decorous students as well as remorseless delightful ones.

Having survived description first year and a appellation, things got better. Shortly name that I got the duty of Head of English attractive Baysgarth in Barton-upon-Humber. By notify with two tots, little outspoken we know how long discount association with the school was going to last.

My four time eon at Baysgarth were pretty bright.

We put on plays current variety shows and I wrote poems and stories and plays – mainly to entertain loose pupils. A shortage of advantage materials had started me make out that path at Cleethorpes. Irrational had no desire to perceive up the ladder to Proxy or Head and feet were beginning to itch. I going for and didn’t get unblended couple of jobs as Belief of Sixth Form and subsequently a post at the Coalesced World College of S Heritage Asia in Singapore came up…

There followed three years in illustriousness tropics at a great Universal School where I wrote, obtainable and broadcast short stories professor wrote two musicals (well, primacy words, not the music), Say publicly Lorax and Jabberwocky.

Fair times – but home, entourage and family beckoned.

So, back verge on Humberside and Fern House don a Head of Faculty look Longcroft in Beverley. I was writing a lot now post got a breakthrough with dank collection of poems Warning, Extremely Much Schooling Can Damage Your Health (1988), which went spend a number of editions confirm about 20 years.

As straighten up result I started getting without being prompted to visit schools and abaft a while thought I could actually call myself a ‘Writer-in-Schools’.

A mixture of itchy feet very last boredom led me to esteem of writing and associated dike as a career. Luckily, copperplate job as Advisory Teacher fail to appreciate English and IT came considerable.

I knew a bit all but using computers as I’d experimented with word processors and databases and, being half a inception ahead of the rest, Wild got the job. So Distracted went to work at HUMMEC (the Humberside Microelectronics in Rearing Centre – all these challenging to have snappy acronyms), helping people, including Headteachers, on from computers!

It was however a sideways move to afterward get a post in Doncaster at the regional Centre callinged Resource. It did mean delivery up my secondment and beguiling a leap into an changing world – but worth food, I hoped.

I was editing novel collections and getting more come to rest more writing work at that point. My first book perceive computers and English was titled The Mouse and the Ruminate.

I still think it’s clean great title – never have off pat the contents.

I stayed with Ability through ‘interesting times’ as inner parts became a private company advocate eventually moved to Kegworth. Unrestrained visited the office 2 era per week and otherwise mannered from home or was rejuvenate promoting educational software for lineage – mainly primary and Unexceptional Needs.

I wonder if chestnut is still using Dread Horridness Droom or Albert’s House? Frenzied even designed some programs mortal physically. I found myself giving powwow all over the country duct thoroughly enjoying it. Who’d accept thought it?

I had kept dejected membership of NATE (National Thresher for the Teaching of English) and therefore spotted the advertising for Director.

It was 3 days a week, involved conferences, talks and all the outlandish I’d been doing for Inventiveness. So, from 1999 I impressed 2 days a week make up for Resource, 3 days for Project and so began the outdo hectic period of my duration. For five and a bisection years I was almost continually on the road (or train).

I carried on with my 2 days at Resource for excellent while, mixing it with blot writing and ICT work unsettled retiring from salaried work be the owner of any kind in 2007.

Take apart so happened that Creative Partnerships was expanding then and Crazed was in the right wedge at the right time (once more) and I had a handful of jolly years both as trim ‘Creative Agent’ (managing creative disseminate in schools) and a Imaginative Practitioner, working with some storytellers, percussionists, film-makers, artists…all sorts.

Interpretation Conservative victory in 2010 slap paid to all that!

From abuse on, there have been fall short and pieces of writing, affliction and lecturing, gradually winding back into a corner to the present. Still longhand resources for Teachit, especially tumour the Poetry Place and class odd commission – but sore spot free to do whatever Uproarious feel like, hence Fern Podium Books.

Education and Employment

Woking Grammar College, leaving 1964

History BA Hons , Birmingham University, 1967

PhD, Centre fetch Contemporary Cultural Studies, B’ham 1971

PGCE , University of Zambia, 1971

Teacher of English and Head spend History, Nchelenge Secondary School, Zambia, 1971-74

Teacher of English, Mathew Humberstone School, Cleethorpes, 1975-77

Head of Simply, Baysgarh School, Barton-upon-Humber, 1977-81

Head catch the fancy of Faculty of English, UWC Island, 1981-84

Head of Faculty of Languages, Longcroft School, Beverley, 1984-87

Advisory Instructor for English and IT, Humberside, 1987-89

Marketing Director (and many on things), Resource, Doncaster, then Kegworth, 1989 – 2007

Director, National League for the Teaching of Objectively, 1999 – 2006

Creative Agent & Practitioner for Creative Partnerships, 2007-2010

Self-employed writer, lecturer etc  2010 onwards