Annette Josephine Carson is a British non-fiction author specialising in history, biography and aviation, with a particular interest in King Richard III.
22 Facts About Annette Carson
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Annette Carson was educated at Mary Datchelor Girls' School in London and the Royal College of Music where she studied violin with Alan Loveday.
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Annette Carson served in organisational roles including contest director, British team manager and international jury member.
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In 1986 Annette Carson published Flight Fantastic: The Illustrated History of Aerobatics, earning the FAI's Paul Tissandier Diploma.
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In 1998, Annette Carson contributed articles to Encyclopaedia Britannica on Aerobatics and Stunt Flying.
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In September 2019 Annette Carson published a new aviation biography Camel Pilot Supreme: Captain D V Armstrong DFC, with Pilot magazine critic Philip Whiteman called it "deeply researched, hugely informative".
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Annette Carson was a booking agent during Jeff Beck's rise to fame with the Yardbirds, and during her 20-year career in the entertainment industry she worked at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, at Equity, and for Thames TV.
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Annette Carson subsequently freelanced while producing the biographical work Jeff Beck: Crazy Fingers, published in the US in 2001.
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Annette Carson concluded that the King's remains still lay under the Greyfriars Church in Leicester where he was originally buried and that the site 'would now probably lie beneath the private car park of the Department of Social Services'.
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The Project's aim was to find the lost grave of Richard III and his mortal remains which meant excavating the same Social Services car park that Annette Carson had written about.
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In 2013 after revising The Maligned King Annette Carson published Richard III: A Small Guide to the Great Debate.
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In 2014 members of the Looking For Richard Project collaborated to produce a report of their research, edited and published by Annette Carson, entitled Finding Richard III: The Official Account of Research by the Retrieval and Reburial Project.
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In 2014 Annette Carson was awarded Honorary Life Membership and is a Fellow of the Richard III Society.
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In 2015 Annette Carson published her fourth Ricardian book, Richard Duke of Gloucester as Lord Protector and High Constable of England, with Ken Hillier saying in the Ricardian Bulletin: "A compelling narrative".
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Annette Carson then produced a new edition of the seminal Latin text by Dominic Mancini describing the accession of Richard III in 1483: "de occupatione regni Anglie" with new English translation, analytical Introduction and full Historical Notes.
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Annette Carson has gone back to basics and removed such weighting.
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Articles by Annette Carson have been published in magazines including the Richard III Society's Ricardian Bulletin, and twice in the society's annual journal The Ricardian, in 2005 and 2012.
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In 2002 Annette Carson brought a legal action against the UK Government seeking Judicial review of its 'frozen pension' policy.
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Annette Carson lost her case, with the Honourable Mr Justice Burnton saying that the decision to uprate the UK State Pension was legislative rather than judicial.
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Annette Carson was given leave to appeal, and the appeal was heard in 2003.
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Annette Carson lost this appeal, but was given leave to appeal, this time to the House of Lords.
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In 2008, Annette Carson took her appeal to the European Convention on Human Rights, in Strasbourg, where she was joined by 12 other "frozen" pensioners from Canada and Australia.