Research Professor Emeritus Tom James
Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
tom.james@winchester.ac.uk
Biography
Professor Emeritus James graduated MA and PhD from the University of St Andrews and then held a Social Science Research Council Fellowship at the University of Southampton, and ran excavations in Perth (Scotland), before arriving to work in Winchester in 1976. Apart from teaching at Winchester he has lectured all over the world from Australia to Denmark, France, Germany, Russia and the USA. He has supervised some twenty PhD students through to completion.
Publications
Apart from articles in scholarly journals and television and radio credits, Tom has written on The Palaces of Medieval England (1990) and has published two books on Clarendon, Wiltshire (1988 on the excavations undertaken at the medieval palace between 1933 and 1964 with Annie Robinson; and Clarendon: Landscape of Kings with Christopher Gerrard (2007)). He has also written Winchester from Prehistory to the Present (second enlarged edition, 2008). He has published on the Black Death of 1348-50 in Hampshire and in Wessex. He wrote a history of Britain 55BC to 1901 for Radio 4’s This Scepter’d Isle (1996, BBC Worldwide), followed by The Story of England (2003). These three projects, on Clarendon, Winchester and England have provided the opportunity to write from prehistory to the present on an ancient landscape, a former capital of England and on England itself.
He has served as Reviews and Medieval Britain Editor of Medieval Archaeology, he is a member and former chair of the Joint Committee of the Southampton Records Series, and holds a fellowship at the University of Southampton in the departments of Archaeology and History. He edits the Hampshire Papers series (Hampshire County Council). 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.
Funding Awards and Professional Membership
Funding bodies and sponsors which have supported his work over the years include The Arts and Humanities Research Council; IBM; Hampshire County Council; the Social Science Research Council; the Society for Medieval Archaeology;The Society of Antiquaries of London; St Andrews University Research Fund; the University of Winchester Research and Knowledge Exchange Centre.