N. J. Higham

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.^[1]

Higham was trained as an archaeologist at Manchester, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1977.^[2] He taught at Manchester from 1977 to 2011.

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• 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^[3])
• 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

• Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) on 11 November 1989^[4]

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

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