I did my undergraduate and postgraduate studies at University College London, and  submitted a doctoral thesis on warfare in medieval Cheshire, supervised by the late Professor Sir Rees Davies. Whilst at UCL I also worked as an assistant editor, first with the late Dr John Morris and then with the late Professor John McN Dodgson on the Phillimore Domesday project. I held a temporary lectureship at Queen Mary College, University of London and taught in a secondary school in Chippenham (Wiltshire) for six years before being appointed as a lecturer in local history in the department of adult education at Keele University in 1984. I was assimilated by the department of history in  the early 1990s. Whilst at Keele I taught as a visiting lecturer at Liverpool University on the M.A. in archive administration, have held two honorary research fellowship there, and  two Fulbright visiting professorships, at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1990-91 and at Westminster College Missouri in 2000-01. I retired in 2019 and was a fellow of Keele University until 2022.
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