stuartwilliams.net

Stuart Williams has been a professional photographer for more than 30 years, and for the past 22 + has specialised in archive and architectural photography, working full-time as a photographer and local historian at Walsall Local History Centre.

In addition, as a freelance journalist, Stuart has written for the computer, photographic and astronomical magazine press, and for local newspapers, since the 1980s. 

Since 2001 he was written a regular monthly feature on local history for the Walsall Chronicle newspaper  and for the past year a regular feature on the history of astronomy for Popular Astronomy magazine.

In 2002, Stuart initiated the founding of the Society for the History of Astronomy, the UK's national society in this field.  He served as Founding Secretary for five years and is currently the society's Research Librarian, managing the Sir Robert Ball Library at the Birmingham & Midland Institute.  He is also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the British Sundial Society.

Stuart Williams is editor and publisher of The Bloxidge Tallygraph, the online community news and local history magazine for the ancient English town of Bloxwich in the Black Country.  He is also the creator and editor of Walsall Writers' Hub, an 'umbrella' website for writers living in or having connections with the metropolitan borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. 

Stuart Williams lives in the Black Country (famed as an inspiration for Tolkien's Mordor!), not far from Birmingham, England.

Contact:  see Contact page.