It has taken me a while to adjust to academic life, but I feel I've had a fruitful start to the year, in particular exploring the archive of a local photographer who documented the villages of Hampshire in the early 1990's, hand developing and printing his photographs and presenting them in 220 handmade books. Some of his work features the location in Horton Heath that my research is focussed on, so since I came across his work at the county records office I have been trying to establish who he was and why he undertook such a mammoth task in the space of just five years. It's been a wonderful exploration of both fact finding and speculation and I'm exicted to see how it informs the next phase of my research,