Dr Simon Draper

Dr Simon Draper is Assistant Editor of the Oxfordshire Victoria County History (VCH) having previously worked for the VCH in Gloucestershire (2007-10) and for the University of the West of England's "Family Names of the United Kingdom" research project which resulted in the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (2016).

A landscape archaeologist by training, his primary research interests lie in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods.  He is the author of Landscape, Settlement and Society in Roman and Early Medieval Wiltshire (2006) and has written a number of articles exploring the archaeological potential of place-names. 

He has taught a number of short courses for University of Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education on local history, surnames, place-names and boundaries in the landscape and enjoys combining practical and interactive learning.