Professor Emeritus Tom James, Professor of Regional Studies

Professor James graduated from the University of St Andrews and then held a Social Science Research Coucil Fellowship at the University of Southampton. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and of Scotland as well as of the Royal Historical Society.

Tom has written on the Medieval Palaces of Britain, a history of Britain 55BC to 1901 for Radio 4’s This Sceptered Isle, and several publications on Winchester and the Black Death in Hampshire. He has served as Reviews and Medieval Britain Editor of Medieval Archaeology, he is a member of the Southampton Record Series and Centre for Wessex History and Archaeology, and edits the Hampshire Papers series. He also serves on the committee of the Hampshire Records Series and is founder-director of both The Clarendon Landscape Project and The Winchester Project.