Trevor Haywood was born in Kidderminster, Worcs in 1943. After attending Secondary Modern school and the local FE College he began his working life as a metallurgist, spending his early years testing big and small chains to destruction. During one of the many sea changes in his life he moved out of metallurgy to work in public libraries. During this time he spent two years at Birmingham College of Commerce where he qualified as a chartered librarian.
After some time in senior positions in public libraries he moved to become acquisitions librarian at Aston University in 1968. Later he enrolled with the first batch of students in 1971 to take an Open University honours degree that he completed in 1976.
Also in 1971 he moved to the newly formed Birmingham Polytechnic as a Senior Lecturer in Management in the School of Information Studies. After 15 years as a lecturer he was made Dean of the newly created Faculty of Computing and Information Studies in 1986 and was confirmed as Professor and Dean of Faculty when the Polytechnic became the University of Central England (UCE) in 1992.
After local government reorganisation and between 1973 and 1979 he was a District Councillor for the newly formed Wyre Forest District Council being Leader of the Council from 1973 until 1976.
After 11 years as Dean of Faculty and 29 years in higher education he took early retirement from UCE as Emeritus Professor of Human Information Systems in March 1997. UCE was renamed Birmingham City University in 2007
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Professor Trevor Haywood has recently completed his new book: ‘Flesh and Bone, the lives, deaths and funerals of British monarchs’
Based on extensive research in the Royal Archives at Windsor what makes this book different from other brief lives is the emphasis Trevor Haywood gives to the illnesses, last days and funerals of each monarch.
Each chapter opens with an outline of each monarch’s life emphasizing events and issues that may be less well known to the reader leading to the circumstances surrounding their last days, where, how and why they died and where, how and when they were buried. Most English monarchs assumed, some even planned, that their last journey would be one of solemn pomp and royal ceremony. Surprisingly for many of them it didn’t turn out like that.
Wishes declared with imperial authority in life were often ignored. The capricious circumstances of their final hours rather than any earlier royal decree often dictated what happened next. The book begins with Edward the Confessor, who died in 1066, precipitating the invasion of England by William the Conqueror, and ends in 1952 with the burial of George VI in St George’s Chapel Windsor.
Copies of the book can be obtained from Trevor Haywood on Tel 281 971 806, or thaywood@clix.pt
Click here to see a copy of the "flyer" for the book, which also includes some examples of the photos taken from the book.
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Previous Publications
Walking with a camera in Herries Lakeland: a journey through the landscape of Hugh Walpole’s Herries novels, Fountain Press 1986. This book written and illustrated with photographs by the author, won the Lakeland Book of the Year Award in 1986.
The Withering of Public Access, Library Association, 1989 (Short pamphlet)
Changing Faculty Environments, British Library R&D Report 6052, July 1991
Info Rich Info Poor: Access and exchange in the global information society, Bowker-Saur, 274pp, 1995.
Praise the Net and pass the modem: revolutionaries and captives in the Information Society, Napier University 1997 (short Pamphlet)
Only Connect: Shaping networks and knowledge for the new millennium, Bowker-Saur, 330p, 1999
Flesh and Bone: the lives, deaths and funerals of British monarchs, El Corvo Publishing, 2007, 285p
Trevor Haywood was born in Kidderminster, Worcs in 1943. After attending Secondary Modern school and the local FE College he began his working life as a metallurgist, spending his early years testing big and small chains to destruction. During one of the many sea changes in his life he moved out of metallurgy to work in public libraries. During this time he spent two years at Birmingham College of Commerce where he qualified as a chartered librarian.