I’ve been running this website since 2015, discussing interesting events in my own life and projects in which I’ve been engaged, as well as discussing other phenomena in the world.

The blog is a hobby not a business, so no payment is required to read it.

There are many recurrent topics which tend to intersect and overlap a fair bit.

Main themes of this blog, in no particular order:

HERALDRY – An auxiliary science of history relating to coats of arms, shields, crests, banners and badges. I have dedicated many posts to observing, analysing and illustrating its examples.

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THE ROYAL FAMILY – Observations on the public and constitutional role of His Majesty King Charles III and his relations, both in the present day and throughout history.

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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS – Analysis of events and processes in the cabinet, the Privy Council, Parliament and the courts. Mostly this concerns Westminster but occasionally there are forays elsewhere.

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THE RAILWAY SERIES – I seem to have wound up writing a lot of articles about the literary works of Wilbert Vere Awdry and their adaptations by Britt Allcroft concerning the Island of Sodor and the railways thereon.

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WIKIPEDIA – Since 2014 I have been contributing regularly to the free-content encyclopedia (and its companion service Wikimedia Commons), mostly on pages relating to the topics mentioned above.

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STUDENT ARCHIVE – A collection of posts from the first five years of the blog, detailing my life at Wilberforce College (as a student governor) and the University of Hull (as a subject representative).

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Other websites I maintain:

Homework Direct – The Sanctuary for Students

This is a website where I provide Key Stage Three and Four pupils with sample responses to difficult homework tasks. The site includes scientific processes, historical essays and literary analysis. This site has essentially been in a pause state since most recently moving between platforms in 2022.

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Paull Holme Tower

A Grade I listed ruin which my family have maintained since the early 1990s. Through a deal with English Heritage, we have been given a substantial grant to restore the building after centuries of decay and vandalism, which continue in the present day.

The family have made several presentations about the tower and our restoration efforts at St Andrew’s Church in Paull, which have drawn considerable attention from the local community. Some years ago a documentary series about the tower was made by Estuary TV.

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Disambiguation

Prior to starting this blog I didn’t normally use my middle name. Though my surname is the fourth most common in Britain, my first is rare enough that I was nearly always the only one in my school. It must be quite popular among the blogosphere, though, because I searched through the Robin Taylor domains one by one and found them all taken. This could be thought inevitable in a world of four billion internet users, but strangely I found plenty of vacant domains when I searched the names of my classmates. I managed to find free domains by using all three names, which occasionally made people think I was double-barrelled.

Robin Taylor could be:

• A broker associate from Orange County, California.
• A thirty-something IT professional from Staffordshire.
• Whomever this is.

Robin Stanley could be:

• A life coach by trade and by heart.
• Someone whose blog is yet to open.

Stanley Taylor could be:

• A photographer in Hamilton.

RST could be:

• A hardware company from Wallenhorst.
• A refugee charity in Glasgow.
• A satellite company in Australia.
• A sediment and erosion control company in New Zealand.