Researching Michael Henderson

Henderson began his career writing for local newspapers, initially covering Rochdale F.C.. Later, he graduated to The Times, where he reported extensively on both cricket and football. In 1999, he moved to The Daily Telegraph as cricket correspondent, before joining the Daily Mail as a general sportswriter in 2002.

He has contributed sporting and general commentary to The Daily Telegraph, and for some time had a sports column on Thursdays and a more general column on Saturdays, but he ceased to regularly contribute to the Telegraph in April 2008. He has continued to contribute occasionally to the other papers he previously worked for, as well as The Wisden Cricketer and The Spectator. Henderson has also freelanced for The Guardian and The Observer.

His first book was 50 People Who Fouled Up Football (2009). Of his 2020 book That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket, the reviewer in The Yorkshire Post said it was "not just a sports book, which is why it is so good" and that it was about "what it means to be English".

He was born in Ealing, London. Due to evacuation he attended many schools: Durston House and Ripley Court in Britain, Milton Academy Junior School and Rectory School in the United States, and The Hall School and Mill Hill School after he returned to England.

From 1979 to 2000 he also lived in Portland, Oregon where he was president of the World Affairs Council, the English-Speaking Union and Willamette Writers.

In the US he was a columnist for The Oregonian and The Christian Science Monitor and Union Jack and contributed op-ed articles to many papers including the Los Angeles Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Milwaukee Journal, The Plain Dealer and the Washington Times.

He was a London correspondent for the Religion News Service, the West Indian Digest and Himmat and had articles published in dozens of papers around the world including the Jamaican Sunday Gleaner, the Japanese Mainichi Daily News, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, Canada’s Calgary Herald, and the Nigeria's The Guardian.

His books include All Her Paths Are Peace – Women Pioneers in Peacemaking, The Forgiveness Factor- Stories of Hope in a World of Conflict and Forgiveness: Breaking the Chain of Hate.

He is also the author of the autobiographical See You After the Duration – the Story of British Evacuees to North America in World War II. He and his brother, Gerald, spent five years at that time in the United States.

He was for 35 years on the British Council of The Oxford Group and 20 years on the American board of Moral Re-Armament, now both known as Initiatives of Change and worked in more than twenty countries in the last 50 years.