User:Iower

I live in the UK and am a prolific user of Wikipedia, which I find a fantastic resource. Occasionally I have found gaps or areas of improvement in individual pages and have made amendments which have stood the test of time.

I am interested in authoring new articles and making more significant edits within my areas of knowledge and competence.

=Areas of interest=


 * Studied History in college, with a focus largely on early medieval Europe and the European colonization of the Americas.
 * Women's History
 * 19th and early 20th century biography

I believe in putting primary sources at the centre of historical research where possible.

=Wikipedia contributions and areas I'm considering working on=

Completed new pages

 * New page on Lady Violet 'Letty' Benson, prompted when I came across her gravestone recently and realised she is named on a variety of wikipedia pages but not linked.
 * New page on Emma Dent, prompted by coming across memorial plaques to her and realising there was a considerable story of her life to tell.

Backlog (mostly tweaks and cleanup)

 * Small adjustments to medieval section of Bordeaux’s history section covering Angevin Empire (done) and cleaning up / simplifying section on Merovingian/Carolingian period (to do: see talk page)
 * Clean up references on J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone

Possible Future Projects

 * Improving Women in the Middle Ages, particularly the 476-1000 section

=WikiProjects etc=