Biography
I completed my doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford in 2011 and I am the author of a number of books including Concepts of Arthur (2007) and Britons and Anglo-Saxons: Lincolnshire AD 400-650 (2020). My principal research interests lie in the history, archaeology, place-names and literature of early medieval Britain, with a particular focus on Anglian–British interaction in this period and the landscape of Anglo-Saxon and medieval England. I am also engaged in research concerned with long-distance trade, migration and contacts in Late Antiquity and the medieval era; I have recently published an analysis of a 9th-century Arabic account of Britain (2022) and a study of an embassy sent by King Alfred to India in the 880s (2026), and working on a book examining connections between medieval Britain and wider world.