Education and career
He was educated at Birmingham University (BA, PhD, PGCE) and King's College London (MA). His doctoral dissertation, supervised by Nicholas Brooks and completed in 1992, investigated the late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman aristocracy in East Anglia. After working as a temporary lecturer in medieval history at the Universities of Manchester and Oxford (1992–4), he was employed by the Institute of Historical Research (1995–2002). His connections through family and friends with South/East Asia led to his work on the comparative history of Europe and South/East Asia in the early middle ages, partly completed while an academic visitor at the Department of Economic History, LSE and the Department of Economics, Lingnan University (2003–4). He was a research associate in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London (2003–6) working on the AHRC Durham Liber Vitae project, and in 2006 he was appointed as director of the British Academy Hearth Tax ProjectBibliography
Books
* (''ed.'' with H. B. Teunis & A. J. Bijsterveld) ''Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power: Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages'' (Brepols, 1999) * ''A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: X. Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds'' (2002) * ''Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia'' (Boydell & Brewer, 2005) * (''ed.'' withArticles
* ‘The motives and politics of the Bigod family c.1066-1177’, ''Anglo-Norman Studies'', 17 (1994) * 'St Oswald’s family and kin', in ''St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence'', eds. N.P. Brooks and C.R.E. Cubitt (Leicester University Press, 1996) * 'The Feudal Revolution in Eleventh-Century East Anglia', ''Anglo-Norman Studies'' 22 (1999), pp. 293–322 * with Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld and Henk Teunis), eds., ''Negotiating secular and ecclesiastical power: Western Europe in the central middle ages'' (Turnhout) (1999) * ‘Two models of marriage: kinship and the social order in England and Normandy’ in Bijstervled et al., eds, Negotiating secular and ecclesiastical power (1999) * 'The Transformation of Kinship and the Family in late Anglo-Saxon England', ''Early Medieval Europe'' 10 (2001), pp. 375–99 * 'Water management and the economic environment in Eastern England, China and the Low Countries c.960-1660: comparisons and consequences', ''Jaarboek voor Ecologische Geschiedenis'' (2005/6) * ‘Kinship’ in M. Schaus, ed, Women and gender in medieval Europe (London) (2006) * ‘The ordines of the original core’ & ‘Alliance and unification strategies in libri vitae’ in D. and L. Rollason, eds, Durham Liber Vitae, III (London) (2007) * (with John Moore and Lynda Rollason) ‘Laity: kings, queens and princesses’, ‘Laity: aristocracy, gentry and their entourages’, ‘Laity: other’ in D. and L. Rollason, eds, Durham Liber Vitae, III (London) (2007) * (with Elizabeth Briggs and David Rollason), ‘Original core’ in D. and L. Rollason, eds, Durham Liber Vitae, III (London) (2007) * (with Xiaagdong Wei) 'Taxation and the Economy in Late Eleventh-Century England: reviving the Domesday regression debate', ''Anglo-Norman Studies'' 29 (2007), pp. 214–27 * (with Alex Burghart) ‘Was there an agricultural revolution in Anglo-Saxon England?’ in Barrow and Wareham, ''Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters'' (2008) * ‘The hearth tax and empty properties in London on the eve of the Great Fire’ ''The Local Historian'', 41 (2011) * ‘Fiscal policies and the institution of a tax state in Anglo-Saxon England within a comparative context’ ''Economic History Review'', 65 (2012) * ‘The redaction of cartularies and economic upheaval in Western England c. 996-1096’ ''Anglo-Norman Studies'', 36 (2013) * (with Dominic Goodall) ‘The political significance of gifts of power in the Khmer and Mercian kingdoms, 793-926’, ''Medieval Worlds'', 6 (2017) * ‘The unpopularity of the hearth tax and the social geography of London in 1666’ ''Economic History Review'', 70 (2017)Online
* (with Ruth Selman and John Price) Hearth Tax Online: householders in late 17th century England (Roehampton) (2010) * (with Georg Vogeler, Theresa Dellinger. Jakob Sonnberger and Aaron Columbus) Hearth Tax Digital (Graz & Roehampton) (2019)External links