One proofreading series of projects that I am involved in is that for Crecy Publishing, the publication in question being the Southern Way. This is what might be described as a ‘bookazine’, which appears once every three months. I was recently asked to proofread edition 54, which featured the usual cross-section of topics with a […]
My latest completed railway proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books was a picture album on the Carmarthen to Fishguard Harbour route, originally of the Great Western Railway. John Hodge, the author, has drawn together a comprehensive collection of illustrations old and new, taking the reader on a photographic journey along this route. Mr Hodge […]
My latest completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books was a weighty volume about two of the short-lived pioneering diesel classes of the BR Modernisation Plan of 1955, the Class 15 and Class 16 Type 1 diesel-electrics. The author, Anthony Sayer, had previously completed other books for Pen & Sword on domestic classes of […]
My latest completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books was a railway one, the subject being the railway lines of the former Great Central Railway (GCR) in the Manchester and South Yorkshire areas which were run as joint operations with other railway companies. The book was a picture one, with detailed captions. The time […]
My latest completed proofread for Pen & Sword Books was something very different from my normal ‘beat’. This was a history of silk and its manufacture over many years, starting in China. Written by historian and broadcaster Anthony Burton, the book describes how silk was originally used for making clothing in China and then spread […]
I have today completed a new proofread on behalf of Pen & Sword Books, this one being on the comprehensive subject of the locomotives used on the former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. Written by Tim Hillier-Graves, the book looks at the myriad of locomotives used on this late, legendary line from 1854 to its […]
My latest completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books is a railway picture book, the subject being the last ten years of steam locomotive operation in and around Carlisle from 1957 to 1967. Author Howard Routledge has gathered together a comprehensive group of illustrations taken by a number of photographers, including Mr Routledge himself. […]
I have just finished a new proofread for Pen & Sword Books, this one being a detailed picture album about British buses and coaches outside of London. All the illustrations were taken during the late 1960s by prolific transport enthusiast and author Jim Blake. A wonderful myriad of vehicles old and new are set before […]
My latest completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books was a picture book about what was described by the manuscript’s author, the late Bernard H. Warr, as the “biggest bus company outside of London”. The company in question was Midland Red and from 1904 to 1981 (when the company was split into regional divisions) […]
My latest completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books was something with a transport theme, but with a difference. The manuscript was entitled ‘Trams, Trolleybuses and Buses on Stamps’, the author being Howard Piltz, a philatelist (or stamp collector) and long-time transport enthusiast. The manuscript was a ‘journey’ around the world, taking a look […]
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