Christine Lightfoot
After completing my degree and a postgraduate teaching course my first job was as a secondary school music teacher. However, after reaching the position of head of a music department, I decided to have a complete change and started work as a technical writer for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Following a move to Hewlett Packard I have since combined being a mother with working as a freelance writer and editor for a wide range of national and international companies writing technical manuals, user guides, training courses, marketing and publicity literature and content for websites. Since the beginning of 2008 I have also become a writing partner with an organisation which helps people to write their own life stories. As a writing partner I help the client to organise and record their memories, advise them on the content and structure of their book and assist with the writing if necessary. We then produce high-quality leather bound, hardback or paperback books.
In addition to my work as a writer I have also been involved in a number of IT training projects. In a recent project I provided IT and internet training for people who felt excluded from the more traditional IT training courses and so I had the opportunity not only to work with homeless people, travellers, recovering drug addicts and alcoholics but also with older people who had missed out on the growth of computers in the workplace and were very apprehensive about getting started. As a result of this work I was interviewed and featured in local television and radio programmes and in the local press.
My most recent work has been managing and promoting three community websites. In this role I worked with a wide range of very interesting people and helped many local community groups and organisations set up their own websites.
Outside work I am a very enthusiastic musician and I regularly play in classical concerts and folk events in and around Oxford.
Latest Articles
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The Wychwood Brewery
The Wychwood Brewery combines traditional brewing methods with modern techniques to produce over 50,000 barrels of ale and a variety of bottled beers which are exported a
Aug 3, 2008
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Inspector Morse in Oxford
The Inspector Morse TV series was based on the detective novels written by Colin Dexter and many episodes were filmed in and around Oxford.
Jul 31, 2008
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The Snake's Head Fritillary
Before the Second World War meadows of fritillaries were common in Britain but since then many of these meadows have been drained and ploughed for the production of food.
Jul 29, 2008
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The Promenade Concerts
The first Promenade concert took place in London in August 1895 and this world famous summer music festival still continues and thrives today.
Jul 17, 2008
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Witney Blankets
For centuries, Witney has been famous all over the world for its blankets. Even though the last surviving mill closed in 2002, the memory of the Witney blanket endures.
Jul 10, 2008
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Cecil Sharp's Revival of Morris Dancing
Despite its long history, the Morris dance of today owes its survival to the work of Cecil Sharp and the English folk music revival at the beginning of the 20th century.
Jun 27, 2008
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The Frietmuseum in Bruges
The humble potato has finally come of age and is being celebrated in an original new museum dedicated to the potato fry in the medieval city of Bruges in Belgium.
May 30, 2008
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