Roger Oldfield

The Author: Roger Oldfield

About Roger Oldfield

Author Roger Oldfield has a personal connection with the Edalji story. He was Head of History at Great Wyrley High School from 1971 to 1986 and met descendants of players in the drama which had once made the village world-famous. His students produced inherited photographs and theories about the horrific animal outrages of 1903 to 1907. St Mark’s vicarage, the Edalji family home, was a few hundred yards from the school, and all the outrages were committed within two miles of the site.

Later, as Advisory Teacher for Multicultural Education in Staffordshire, he was able to investigate the wider experiences of the Edalji family and discover whole areas of their lives unreported by any other writer.

Academics, journalists, authors and television programme-makers have drawn on his research. He himself has appeared in television programmes about the events of 1903 to 1907, including the BBC’s Conan Doyle for the Defence and ITV’s Forensic Casebook with Matthew Kelly.