Paul Douch, BA
Location: BECCLES
Membership Grade: Professional Member
Contact Info
General Experience
After a degree in medieval & modern history, I worked in public libraries for 20 years, most of them as a chartered librarian. I catalogued using Dewey Decimal Classification for 3 years.
While training in indexing, I helped adult learners to get online or to achieve CLAiT and ECDL using MS Office programs.
I became a qualified indexer in 2011 and then took a proofreading course with The Publishing Training Centre.
For five years until 2016 I was part-time clerk to a parish council. Birdwatching and family history have replaced village cricket as my main pastimes. And I still help adults with IT issues in a voluntary capacity.
Available for indexing all year, except September.
Subjects
Blofeld, Henry: Ten to win: and the last man in (Hodder & Stoughton, 2021)
Safe Practice: in Physical Education, School Sport and Physical Activity; 10th ed. (Association for Physical Education and Coachwise Ltd, 2020)
Rushall, Mark: RYA Tactics; new ed. (Royal Yachting Association, 2019)
Baker, George: Taking my time – my autobiography (Racing Post Books, 2018)
Safe Practice in Physical Education, School Sport and Physical Activity; 9th ed. (Association for Physical Education and Coachwise Ltd, 2016)
Reid, Jamie: Blown (Racing Post Books, 2015)
Sharpe, Graham (with Mihir Bose): William Hill – the man and the business (Racing Post Books, 2015)
Long-term follower of football and rugby union.
Blofeld, Henry: Ten to win: and the last man in (Hodder & Stoughton, 2021)
Long-time collector and reader of Wisden and The Cricketer. Follower of Test Match cricket and the 1st-class game in England.
Village club cricketer 1979-2004.
Smyth, Fiona: Pistols in St Paul’s – science, music, and architecture in the twentieth century (Manchester University Press, NYP)
Stone, Ian W: Crafted in Stone – a history of the Worshipful Company of Masons of the City of London (Phillimore, 2023)
Cribb, Stephen & Huxham, Steve: Out of the mud – a history of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers (Phillimore, 2020)
I have been researching family histories since 2010. I keep up-to-date with developments in the field largely through membership of five family history societies. Since 2017, I have had several articles published in The Greenwood Tree (journal of the Somerset and Dorset FHS), Dorset Family History Society Journal and The Manchester Genealogist (journal of the Manchester & Lancashire FHS).
Besides my main interest in birds, I record butterflies, dragonflies and mammals for Norfolk and Suffolk county recorders. I have volunteered for the Broads Authority and as a part-time seasonal warden for Friends of Horsey Seals, looking after the grey seal colony on Norfolk’s east coast.
Index to The Suffolk Argus Vols 50-88. Published on website since Sept 2022. This is the newsletter of the Suffolk branch of Butterfly Conservation
Dunn, Euan: Puffins (RSPB Spotlight series; published by Bloomsbury). Unpublished index (prepared from published book).
Besides regular recording of birds for the BTO via BirdTrack, I make the monthly WEBs count at Lound Lakes. I have been volunteering at the Little Terns colonies at Great Yarmouth/ Winterton/ Eccles-on-Sea since 2005.
Toynbee, Polly & Walker, David: The Lost Decade 2010-2020 (Guardian Books, 2020). Unpublished index; prepared from published book.
Working in public libraries for 20+ years, several of those as a UNISON steward, has given me inside knowledge of the issues and workings of the local government sector.
Related qualifications
Chartered Member of Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (1988-2022)
Other skills
Recent indexes include
Stone, Ian W, Crafted in Stone – a history of the Worshipful Company of Masons of the City of London, Phillimore, 2023
The Suffolk Argus. Vols 50-88.
A triannual newsletter for lepidopterists. Issues and index published on branch website, Butterfly Conservation - Suffolk Branch, 2023
Blofeld, Henry, Ten to Win – and the Last Man in, Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
Cribb, Stephen, Out of the Mud – a History of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers, Phillimore, 2020
Safe Practice: in Physical Education, School Sport and Physical Activity (latest ed.), Association for Physical Education and Coachwise Ltd, 2020
Rushall, Mark, RYA Tactics; new ed., Royal Yachting Association, 2019
Swann, Karen, Lives of the Dead Poets: Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Fordham University Press, 2019
Clients Include
Manchester University Press
Phillimore Book Publishing
Hodder & Stoughton
Coachwise Ltd
Royal Yachting Association
Fordham University Press
Racing Post Books
Tools
Desktop PC; laser all-in-one printer
SKY INDEX
MS Office 365
