mcstefanicki.co.uk: Home page

Welcome to my website.

My name is Marek Stefanicki, and these pages are about what I do.

Well... some of it...

My interests include:

Music - Hurdy Gurdy, Bagpipes, Piano...

Living History - World War Two, The Battle of Britain, Polish pilots in the RAF, 17th Century Polish cavalry officer

Calligraphy

Writing - mainly poetry

Sailing - dinghy and offshore

Shooting - smallbore and fullbore rifle. Occasional shotgun

Flying - took flying lessons on on a Piper Cherokee 140 as a direct result of re-enacting an RAF officer. Waiting for that call from the Red Arrows...

Personal background

Last employer:

Kool Skool...

Secondary School:

Highgate School 1966 - 71

University (1st degree)

1984-1987

BA (Hons) Humanities

University (postgraduate)

Kings College, London

1987 - 1988

PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education)

Brunel University

1992 - 1995

M.Ed. (Masters degree in Education)

Books I have particularly enjoyed, and frequently return to:

Henry Fielding: "Joseph Andrews"

A. A. Milne: "Winnie the Pooh"

George Eliot: "Silas Marner"

Elizabeth Gaskell: "North and South"

Melvyn Bragg: "The Adventure of English"

Bill Bryson: "A Short History of Nearly Everything"

Books I have particularly enjoyed, and frequently return to:

Sellar and Yeatman: "1066 and All That"

Catherine Reilly (ed) "Scars Upon My Heart"

J. R. R. Tolkien: "The Lord of the Rings"

Khaled Hosseini: "The Kite Runner"

George Mikes: "How to be an Alien"

John Steinbeck: "Cannery Row"