MAKING history relevant to a fast-paced and forward-facing world
the historian
Cross-legged on a 1940’s carpet and mouth agape, as the toddler heard how his grandmother dodged bombs during the London Blitz, he vowed to become a historian.
Graduating with First Class Honours in 2009, Chris wrote extensively on a diverse history of the world including democracy’s birth in Ancient Greece, witchcraft trials of the Middle Ages, the fiscal sense of King Charles I, sociopolitical rupture during the American and Spanish Civil Wars, and the personality cult of fascist regimes.
But it was those formative years with his grandparents that gave Chris a particular interest in the Second World War.
THE presenteR
As a fresh graduate, there were no Indiana Jones vacancies and like everyone else, Chris stared into the abyss of recession. Falling back upon his business acumen, Chris salvaged a career in the corporate world, rising to senior positions in some of the world’s most influential technology companies.
But it was his knack for engaging communication, something Chris attributes to most of his successes, that brought Chris into the world of presenting and public speaking, at the urge of his peers. He then underwent professional training for TV broadcasting with the aim of putting our world’s stories into the public consciousness.
Simultaneously, Chris harnessed his writing experience for his acclaimed Christory blog and established a company to produce content for a diverse portfolio of clients and agencies.
Since 2017, production companies and businesses have harnessed Chris’s personality to tell their story and engage their audiences.
“Chris has that rare ability to gain intimate access into peoples’ lives and quickly distil complex subjects into compelling stories.”
The adventurer
Chris couldn’t resist his calling any longer.
Having travelled extensively over the years, he eventually set out on a voyage across Asia and Africa, exploring the battlefields of Okinawa and desert trucking past bygone colonial outposts in Namibia.
Applying his academics to tangibly explore our world’s history, Chris self-shot several documentaries that covered Myanmar’s struggle with modernity, the aftermath of hard-line politics in the Philippines, economic uncertainty in an ageing Japan and fledgling conservation in a cyclone-battered Mozambique.
Yet, a cause close to his heart would bring him home…
The Documentarian
Chris realised the pace at which the WW2 generation were fading away, and with this, the subsequent disconnect between their wisdom and younger minds.
In response to this, Chris founded We Will Remember: an ongoing documentary initiative whose mission is to capture the humanity behind the conflict and distil it into resonant wisdom for younger generations. These efforts highlighted Chris’s talents as an interviewer, with the family of a South African veteran testifying, “We have tried and failed to extract the kind of details [Chris] effortlessly made him recall.”
Since then Chris, whose great-grandfather perished at the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944, has been hopping across continents to find and present stories as exceptional as a centenarian doctor who worked with Alexander Fleming and invented the pollen count, to a Lebanese prince who led one of the only units to hold the line during the Battle of the Bulge.
THE PERSONALITY
Thriving in our world’s eccentricities, Chris has a rare ability to gain intimate access into peoples’ lives and quickly distil complex subjects into compelling stories. He believes that history touches everything, and the more unique or unobtainable the story, the better. It’s this belief that drives him to confront unpredictable situations to unravel the stories that shake our understanding of the world.
Renowned for his warm charisma, contagious passion and that cheeky glint in the eyes, Chris entertains, inspires and educates audiences of a broad demographic. It’s to them that he poses an important question: