Entries I wrote for h2g2.com

h2g2 is an online encyclopedia and community that launched in April 1999, and was taken over by the BBC in 2001. I joined the site in February 2004 and have written more than a hundred entries for h2g2's Approved Guide (previously referred to as the Edited Guide). In January 2011, the BBC announced their intention to 'dispose' of the site to a third party. Since then, h2g2 has been rescued by a combination of volunteers and philanthropists.

Below are links to a sample of entries I've written. The full set can be found on a dedicated blog, and I still have a 'personal space' with oodles of volunteer badges over on h2g2 itself.

Entries of the Month

• Shell Shock - February 2009.
• The Gomboc - March 2010. 

Labours of Love

• The History of the Royal Navy - a five part series about the UK's Royal Navy, from 882 to 2005.  
• Abandoned London Tube Stations - both exhaustive and exhausting.
• Helvellyn and Blencathra - not worthy of Wainwright, but hopefully passable.

Curiosities 

• Operation Able Archer - how the world nearly ended in November 1983.
• The London Necropolis Railway - an express train to the countryside for the dearly departed.
• The Bears of the McNeil River Sanctuary - an entry I was asked to write by another researcher.
• The Squirrel Proposition Refuted - something of a mathematical headache.

Excessive Research

• Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova - researched from scratch in two days for a competition.
• STALKER - a video game described in terms of a 1972 short story and an art film.
• Metaphysical Isms - tries to include every form of belief system in existence, including Jedi.