I took my BA (Hons), MA and AHRB sponsored PhD at the University of Manchester. My thesis focuses on Anglo-Saxon England in the seventh and eighth centuries explores the relationship between conversion to Christianity and changing patterns of Mercian kingship in the period c. 630 - 796.
University of Manchester CDCE 1996 - 1998, 2004 - 2006
University of Manchester History Department 1998 - 2001, 2004
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"Soft on feud?" : a historiographical survey of attitudes to early medieval feud'
'The Mercians and the Welsh c.650 - c.800: from pluralism to exclusion - religion, ethnicity and primary group identity.'
‘Offa’s Dyke - A Historiographical Appraisal’, Journal of Medieval History, 37. 2 (2011).
‘Reluctant Kings and Christian Conversion in Seventh-Century England’, History, 92.2 (2007).
‘An Early Mercian Hegemony: Penda and Overkingship in the Seventh Century’, Midland History, 30 (2005).
'Bede, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Early West Saxon Kingship’, Southern History, 19 (1997).
‘Control of London in the Seventh Century’, in Towns, Topography, Tapestry: Studies in Memory of Dr David Hill, ed. G. Owen-Crocker (2014).
‘Bishop Wilfrid and the Mercians’, in St Wilfrid, ed. R. Hall and N. J. Higham (2013).
‘Early Mercia and the Britons’, in Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. N. J. Higham (Woodbridge, 2007).
‘Orchestrated violence and “The Supremacy of the Mercian Kings”’, in Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, BAR (British Series), 383 (2005).
Offa's Dyke - A Symbol of Kingship, History West Midlands, 2.3 (October 2014).
Monograph
Kingship and Conversion: Constructing Pre-Viking Mercia (Archaeopress, forthcoming, 2015).
‘Power and Place: Meetings between kings in early Anglo-Saxon England’, in The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World ed. G. Owen-Crocker and M. Clegg Hyer (forthcoming, 2015).
Book Reviews
Thomas F. X. Noble and Julia M. M. Smith eds, The Cambridge History of Christianity - Volume 3: Early Medieval Christianities, c. 600 - c. 1100 (Cambridge, 2008), History (July, 2010).
Nicholas Howe, Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England (Yale, 2008), History (October, 2009).
Alaric Hall, Elves in Anglo-Saxon England, (Woodbridge, 2007), History (October, 2008).
Sarah Foot, Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600 - 900 (Cambridge, 2006), History (July, 2008).
Barbara Yorke, The Conversion of Britain, (Dorchester, 2006), History (April, 2007).
Peer Reviews
For History and The English Historical Review.