Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews’s personal home page

You've arrived (by whatever means) at the personal home page of Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews. The following pages give you a bit of an insight into my life, describing a bit about who I am, what I do and what I think. I’ve tried to include useful links to other places, too. I always appreciate feedback, so let me know what you think!

This is me. The photo was taken in Hitchin Museum in January 2006, when I was full of cold, so I don’t look healthy or alert.

I was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire (about 60 km north of London), in 1958. I'm the eldest of two sons. My brother, Andrew, still lives in Hertfordshire, while my parents crossed the border into Bedfordshire. Mum died in December 1999 and Dad in March 2005.

I left the area in 1977 to go to university, in Lancaster. I fell in love with the North-West and decided to stay for a bit. I then had five years back in the south, between 1985 and 1990, when I worked as an archaeologist for North Hertfordshire Museums. In 1990, I took up a permanent post with Chester City Council and remained there until 2004, developing an extensive knowledge of the region’s archaeology. In 2004, I moved back to North Herts when the post of Archaeology Officer at the District Council became available and I got it. So, in February 2004 I moved back to North Herts, where I now live.

More importantly, on 21 December 2005, my partner Bahkti and I registered our ‘Civil Partnership’ (gay marriage, if you don’t want to use the weasel words dreamed up by Tony Blair’s government to avoid upsetting the religious bigots). I can honestly say that it was the best (and most important) day of my life, to be able to have public recognition of the love that the two of us share.