I’m Andrew Chapman. I’m a writer, editor and book designer based in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, UK. I help people publish non-fiction books. I’m also the editor of three magazines, all relating to different aspects of British history:

• (from December 2024) the archaeology/folklore/psychogeography journal Northern Earth – plus its associated newsletter
• Discover Your Ancestors magazine (since 2011) – social and family history
• the British Association for Local History’s Local History News journal (since 2023)

I co-write Histories, a popular weekly newsletter exploring hidden corners of the past, and publish history books at Heritage Hunter. I walk a lot, often with oddball themes. And I’m interested in all kinds of stuff, some of which I’ve written about, particularly history, landscape and psychogeography. There’s a page here on what I’m up to now.

If you need help with a book project, visit my business website to hire me. I have particular expertise/experience as a history editor.

Side projects

• NEW for 2024: Thingsaurus – the thesaurus for things aka a ‘similarity engine’
• UPDATED for 2023: The Bookalyser – professional software for authors and editors
• NEW for 2022: Oundle – a version of Wordle with British place names
• Acrofinder.net – a search engine for acronyms
• A tool for helping write headlines (works but needs updating…)

I’ve also had various (some ongoing) creative collaborations with Paul Lenz, including the aforementioned Histories and:

• Who Should You Vote For? (co-created political quiz site: 5m+ users)
• How Many Hippos? (co-authored quiz book and website)
• I co-created and ran a leading book recommendation website from 2005 until we sold it in 2019