Ollie Randall (b.1993) is a writer, historian and cartoonist. Since 2022 he has been researching a PhD at King’s College London about London’s cricket-playing writers (1887-1968).
Ollie regularly publishes articles in the Times Literary Supplement (see his contributor page here) and elsewhere. His first peer-reviewed scholarly article, ‘Cricket, Literary Culture and In-Groups in Early Twentieth-Century Britain,’ was published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society in 2024; his second scholarly article is awaiting publication. He has collaborated on history projects with a former leader of the House of Lords and with the team at The Rest is History.
Ollie also works as a cartoonist, specialising in weddings and events – see his dedicated website – and works as a tour manager on cultural tours. He studied Ancient and Medieval History at the University of Oxford, before achieving a Distinction in his Creative Writing Masters degree, also at Oxford.
Ollie is based in Oxford.
