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Contributors
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Julian Richards completed his doctorate on Anglo-Saxon funerary practices at Staffordshire
University Computing Department. After a spell at the University of Leeds he moved to York
where he teaches and researches Viking archaeology and computer applications and is Director
of the Archaeology Data Service. He has excavated Anglo-Scandinavian settlements in the
Yorkshire Wolds and is now working on a Viking barrow cemetery in Derbyshire. He is the
author of Viking age England.
John Schofield is Curator of Architecture at the Museum of London. He has been digging in
and writing about the City of London since 1974. His main interests are in urban archaeology of
all periods and in the relationships between archaeology and documentary history. He has written
The building of London from the Conquest to the Great Fire, Medieval London houses and, with Alan Vince,
Medieval towns.
Paul Stamper works as an Inspector of historic parks and gardens for English Heritage. In the
1980s he was Assistant Director of excavations at Wharram Percy (Yorkshire), and his research
interests have always focussed on the rural landscapes of the Middle Ages. He is the author of
Historic parks and gardens of Shropshire, a county on which he worked for many years on the staff of
the Victoria County History. He has recently co-edited The age of transition: the archaeology of English
culture 1400–1600.
Alasdair Whittle is a Professor of Archaeology in the School of History and Archaeology at
Cardiff University. He has researched widely on the Neolithic period in Britain, directing fieldwork
projects from Shetland to Wessex, and Europe. His recent publications include Europe in the
Neolithic: the creation of new worlds and Sacred mound, holy rings.
Ian Whyte taught at University College Swansea and the University of Glasgow before moving
to Lancaster where he is now Professor of Historical Geography. His research interests include
landscape change in Britain during the post-medieval period, and the economic and social
development of early modern Scotland. His recent books include Scotland before the Industrial
Revolution: an economic and social history c1050–c1750 and Climatic change and human society.