Harry first read Classics at King’s College, London. On the Thames, amid London’s historic Strand, he was immersed in the study of Latin and Ancient Greek. After graduating with a BA in Classics and winning the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Katie Lentakis prize, Harry proceeded onto a PhD programme under the supervision of Prof. Michael Clarke in Galway, Ireland.

Sharing his time between London and the wave-battered Irish coast, Harry wrote his doctoral thesis on Ancient Greek lexical semantics, working with neuroscientists and computational linguists to better understand Greek word meaning. His thesis was examined by Prof. James Clackson (Cambridge University) and passed. Subsequently, Harry wrote a paper for the Journal of Greek Linguistics (forthcoming 2025) and the Antigone journal on the complexities of deciphering Greek words.

After his doctoral thesis, Harry returned to a problem which had haunted him since he was a teenager: homophobia in the Bible. What started as a project to understand how homophobia emerged in the letters of St. Paul quickly morphed into a much longer project, reaching right back into the depths of archaic Greece.

In November of 2023, ten months after finishing his PhD, Harry was signed by Kat Aitken of United Agents. Kat subsequently founded Lexington Literary which now represents Harry. Together, Kat and Harry sent The Queer Thing About Sin (his new history of homophobia) to several publishers. Bloomsbury Continuum bought the book and it will be published in the UK (September 25th 2025) and the US and Canada (January 13th 2025); several translations are also planned and have been signed. Harry’s foreign rights agents are PFD, and film rights are looked after by Penni Killick at the Artists Partnership.

Harry continues to write, research, and offer private tutorials in London to enthusiastic students; he also speaks at events and provides public-facing and academic lectures. He is a member of the Groucho Club.