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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

collapsed Roman basilica wall at Leicester

Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Key Contacts

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Ranked 9th in the Guardian University Guide 2013

 

Publications

Book

(with R Young) 1995 Lindisfarne: Holy Island London: Batsford/English Heritage (second edition due 2010)

Papers and Articles

The ‘Little Dissolution’ of the 1520s, Post Medieval Archaeology 40 (ii) (2006) 1-32

(with R Young) 'The Flint', N Thomas (ed.) Snail Down Wiltshire Archaeology and Natural History Society 2005 (2006)

'Space silence and shortage on Lindisfarne: the archaeology of asceticism' in H Hamerow and A McGregor (eds.) Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain. Essays in Honour of Rosemary Cramp Oxford: Oxbow (2001) 33-52

 ‘Gendered Exhibitionism’  in S Pearce (ed.) Researching Material Culture Leicester (2000) 65-74

(with DS Hides) 'Dressed to express: women's dress and the construction of ethnicity' in M Donald and L Hurcombe (ed.) Gender and Material Culture Macmillan (2000)

'Teaching and learning post-medieval archaeology in Britain' in G Egan and R Michael (eds.) Old and New Worlds Oxford: Oxbow (1999)

(with K Walsh, AG Brown, S Crane and R Young) 'Marginality, multiple estates and environmental change: the case of Lindisfarne' in G Coles et al (eds.) Archaeology on the Margin proceedings of the conference of the Association of Environmental Archaeologists, Edinburgh (1999).

D O'Sullivan 'A group of pagan Anglo-Saxon burials from Cumbria?' Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History, 9 Oxford. (1996) 15-23

(with K Walsh, R Young, S Crane and AG Brown) 1995 'Medieval Landscape, agriculture and environmental change on Lindisfarne (Holy Island), Northumbria' in RA Butlin and N Roberts (eds) Ecological Relations in Historical Times Institute of British Geographers Special Publications 32, 101-121.