Margaret Faull

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Margaret Faull
Born (1946-04-04) 4 April 1946 (age 78)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Leeds
University of Sheffield
ThesisBritish survival in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire (1979)
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Museum studies
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Margaret Lindsay Faull, OBE, FSA (born 4 April 1946) is a Australian-British archaeologist and museum director, noted for her work on Anglo-Saxon England and industrial archaeology.

Biography[edit]

Faull was born on 4 April 1946 and grew up in Sydney.[1] She undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in the Department of Archaeology, University of Leeds.[2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "British survival in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire" and was completed in 1979.[2]

Faull worked as an archaeologist for what was at the time the West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, followed by employment at Thwaite Mills Industrial Museum in Leeds. In 1986, she supported the banning of South African archaeologists from the World Archaeological Congress as part of the Academic boycott of South Africa in opposition to apartheid.[3]

She became director of the Yorkshire Mining Museum in Wakefield in 1986 or 1987.[4][5] She completed a Master of Arts (MA) degree at the University of Sheffield in 1990, with a thesis titled "The Use by Local Authorities of the Charitable Trust as a Vehicle for Establishing and Operating Museums. Two Case Studies: Caphouse Colliery and Thwaite Mills". The Yorkshire Mining Museum became the National Coal Mining Museum for England in 1995.[4] She retired from her role as director in October 2015.[6]

She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) on 4 April 2005.[7] In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to industrial heritage", particularly due to her work at the Coal Mining Museum.[8][9]

Publications[edit]

Early medieval England[edit]

  • 'Britons and Angles in Yorkshire', Studium: The Journal of the Sydnry Medieval & Renaissance Group, 6 (1974), pp. 1–24
  • 'Roman and Anglian Settlement Patterns in Yorkshire', Northern History, 9 (1974), 1–25, doi:10.1179/nhi.1974.9.1.1
  • 'The Semantic Development of Old English Wealh', Leeds Studies in English, n.s., 8 (1975), 20–44
  • 'The Location and Relationship of the Sancton Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries', The Antiquaries Journal, 56 (1976), 227–33, doi:10.1017/S0003581500064702
  • 'British Survival in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria', in Studies in Celtic Survival, ed. by L. Laing, British Archaeological Reports, British Series, 37 (Oxford: BAR, 1977), pp. 1–55.
  • 'Place-Names and Past Landscapes', Journal of the English Place-Name Society, 11 (1978–79), 24–46
  • 'The Use of Place-Names in Reconstructing the Historic Landscape, Illustrated by Names from Adel Township', Landscape History, 1 (1979), 34–43, doi:10.1080/01433768.1979.10594338
  • and Richard T. Smith, 'Phosphate Analysis and Three Possible Dark Age Ecclesiastical Sites in Yorkshire', Landscape History, 2 (1980), 21–38, doi:10.1080/01433768.1980.10594344
  • 'The Pre-Conquest Ecclesiastical Pattern', in West Yorkshire: An Archaeological Survey to A.D. 1500, ed. by M. L. Faull and S. A. Moorhouse, 4 vols (Wakefield: West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, 1981), pp. 210–23 ISBN 0861810015
  • 'Roman and Anglo-Saxon Settlement Patterns in Yorkshire: A Computer-Generated Analysis', Landscape History, 5 (1983), 21–40, doi:10.1080/01433768.1983.10594370
  • 'Late Anglo-Saxon Settlement Patterns in Yorkshire', in Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon Settlement, ed. by M. L. Faull (Oxford, 1984), pp. 129–42
  • 'Settlement and Society in North East England in the Fifth Century', in Settlement and Society in the Roman North, ed. by P. R. Wilson, R. F. J. Jones and D. M. Evans (Bradford: University of Bradford, 1984), pp. 49–56
  • Domesday Book: Yorkshire, ed. by M. L. Faull and Marie Stinson, Domesday Book: A Survey of the Counties of England, 30 (Chichester: Phillimore, 1986), ISBN 9780850335316
  • 'The Decoration of the South Doorway of Ledsham Church Tower', Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 139 (1986), 143–47, doi:10.1179/jba.1986.139.1.143

Museum studies[edit]

Australian history[edit]

  • 'Indigenous Australian Land management before the European Settlement in 1788: A Review Article', Landscape History, 35 (2014), 67–79, doi:10.1080/01433768.2014.981396

References[edit]

  1. ^ 'Happy Birthday Dr Margaret Faull, 66', The Times (4 April 2012).
  2. ^ a b Faull, Margaret Lindsay (1979). British survival in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire (PhD thesis). University of Leeds. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  3. ^ 'XVI. Letter from Dr Margaret Faull in "Current Archaeology": Banning South Africa', Minerva, 27.1 (March 1989), 87-125 (p. 117) (repr. from Current Archaeology, 9 (August 1986).
  4. ^ a b "Margaret Faull". Welcome to The Art House. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  5. ^ 'Royal honour for Margaret Faull, of National Coal Mining Museum', YorkshireLive (5 January 2010).
  6. ^ 'Margaret Faull to leave as boss of National Coal Mining Museum', Halifax Courier (7 September 2015).
  7. ^ "Dr Margaret Faull". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  8. ^ "No. 59090". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2009. pp. 9–10.
  9. ^ 'Dr. Margaret Faull OBE', SNSBI: Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, Newsletter, n.s. 1 (autumn 2010), 3.
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