Ian Ibbetson recently retired and moved to a wonderful wee island just off the west coast of Scotland.He has been a writer of one sort or another for most of his life. He has written the occasional, usually poor, bit of poetry, newsletters, press releases, business plans and pitches, funding applications, adverts, and even the occasional birthday card. (Apologies if I forgot yours. 😂) But Ian hasn’t written fiction since he left school, more than half a century ago.
He is a jack-of-all-trades with experience spanning heavy industry, transport, the third sector, artisan food production, hospitality, e-commerce, and a few other bits.
Ian writes about politics, technology, history, media, community, and the strange ways they collide. Sometimes he rants. Sometimes he reasons. Occasionally, he even changes his mind.
As a mature student, he studied History and Historiography at Ruskin College, Oxford. Historiography always interested him more than history itself asking why was it told this way, who was it written for, and what internal or external constraints shaped the story? Those questions eventually led him to Sussex University, where he opted for Media Studies with Cultural and Community Studies rather than History.
Despite having been politically active in the past, these days Ian is less interested in party politics than in the systems and structures that shape contemporary issues. If you’re looking to him for tribal loyalties, you’ll probably be disappointed. If you’re interested in how history, technology, media and power interact, put the kettle on and pull up a chair.
Stories:
Wee Florrie – coming soon
literally stories 