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Nicholas John Higham FSA (born 1951) is a British archaeologist, historian, and academic. He was Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester, and is now an emeritus professor.

Higham was trained as an archaeologist at Manchester, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1977. He taught at Manchester from 1977 to 2011.

Bibliography

• with Barri Jones, The Carvetti, Sutton (Gloucester, England), 1985, new edition, 1991.
• The Northern Counties to AD 1000, Regional History of England, Longman, (New York, NY), 1986.
• Rome, Britain, and the Anglo-Saxons, Seaby (London, England), 1992.
• The Kingdom of Northumbria: AD 350-1100, Sutton (Gloucester, England), 1993.
• The Origins of Cheshire, Manchester University Press (Manchester, England), 1993.
• An English Empire: Bede and the Early Anglo-Saxon Kings, Manchester University Press (Manchester, England), 1995.
• The English Conquest: Gildas and Britain in the Fifth Century, Manchester University Press (Manchester, England), 1994. (review by Christopher A. Snyder)
• The Convert Kings: Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England, Manchester University Press (Manchester, England), 1997.
• The Death of Anglo-Saxon England, Sutton (Gloucester, England), 1997.
• The Norman Conquest, Sutton (Gloucester, England), 1998.
• King Arthur: Myth-making and History, Routledge (New York, NY), 2002.
• A Frontier Landscape, 2004
• King Arthur: The Making of the Legend, 2018

Honours and prizes

• Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) on 11 November 1989

References

1. "Emeritus professors". Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies | The University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 11 August 2023.
2. "Nick Higham" at LinkedIn.
3. Arthuriana 6:3:69-71 (1996)
4. "Dr Nicholas Higham". Society of Antiquaries of London. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2020.

External links

• Staff of the Manchester School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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