Marjie Bloy qualified as a teacher  in 1968 at Alnwick College of Education, Northumberland and from then until Christmas 2001 she taught History in Rotherham, England. Initially, she taught for eighteen years in secondary education but from 1987 she worked in Further and Higher Education. On 4 January 2002, Marjie headed off to the National University of Singapore to work there until 31 December.  She arrived home in Rotherham in early January 2003, having had a wonderful time on the "other side of the world". During the academic years 2003/5 she continued her "globe-trotting" and taught at Beijing Language and Culture University.

In 1981 she graduated in History from the University of London and in 1986 was awarded a PhD from the University of Sheffield. Her thesis was a study of the second Marquis of Rockingham and Yorkshire Politics. In 2000, she gained an M.Ed. in Networked Collaborative Learning, also at the University of Sheffield.

It's always the cat's fault!

Marjie is married to Glyn; their "family" consisted of a little ginger tripod, Suzie, who took her last journey on 17 November 2005 and an elderly grey/white tabby boy Wellington who was 21 when he took his last journey on 12 September 2007. Their very friendly large black Labrador dog, Raq - not renowned for his brain cells - took his last journey on 11 July 2005. Other (human) family members live in Rotherham, England and Toronto, Canada.

Since Wellington's passing, Cleo has moved in to bring back the patter of four furry feet. She is (perhaps) two years old and - like Wellington - came in through the cat-flap. In June 2008, Magnet joined the family.

Marjie is a member of the Rotherham Lacemakers.

This web site began life as a project for the M. Ed. and then grew into a resource for people studying the "Age of Peel", British history between 1830 and 1850. Currently it is being extended to include the period 1760-1830.

You can contact Marjie here. Please indicate in the subject line that your mail is related to the web site: there's so much spam around that I just hit 'delete' without reading mails from addresses that I don't recognise.

Please note: I am happy to try to answer any questions but I will not write coursework assignments for students. Any coursework questions need to be specific :)

If you find a broken link, please let me know, so that I can fix it.