Stephen David Baxter (born 1969) is a British historian. He has been Barron Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History at

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, since 2014, and in 2020 he was awarded the title of Professor of Medieval History by the

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. He specialises in lordship in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England, and the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

Early life and education

Born in 1969,"The Leofwinesons: power, property and patronage in the early English kingdom"
''SOLO: Bodleian Libraries Online''. Retrieved 5 March 2023. Baxter completed his undergraduate degree in modern history at

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,"Professor Stephen Baxter"
''St Peter's College, Oxford''. Retrieved 5 March 2023. graduating in 1991 with a double first.
''King's College London''. Archived from the original on 8 October 2010. From 1991 to 1997, he worked in the private sector, firstly for a strategic

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firm and then an

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in London, before returning to Oxford to complete a doctorate at Christ Church between 1997 and 2001. His

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was awarded in 2002 for his

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"The Leofwinesons: power, property and patronage in the early English kingdom", which was supervised by C. P. Wormald.

Academic career

Between 2001 and 2004, Baxter was a junior research fellow at

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. From 2004 to 2014, he taught medieval history at

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, firstly as a lecturer and from 2009 as a

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in medieval history. In 2014, he was elected Barron Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History at

, and Clarendon Associate Professor of Medieval History in the

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's Department of History. In 2020, he was awarded the title of Professor of Medieval History by the University of Oxford. Baxter was a co-director for the second phase of the AHRC-funded

Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database and associated website that aims to construct a prosopography of individuals within Anglo-Saxon England The PASE online database

(PASE) project, alongside Dame

Janet Nelson Dame Janet Laughland Nelson (born 1942), also known as Jinty Nelson, is a British historian. She is Emerita Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. Early life Born on 28 March 1942 in Blackpool, Nelson was educated at Keswick S ...

Simon Keynes Simon Douglas Keynes, ( ; born 23 September 1952) is a British author who is Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon emeritus in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College.< ...

Harold Short Harold Short is Emeritus Professor of King's College London. He founded and directed the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (later Department of Digital Humanities) until his retirement (2010). He was involved in the development with Willard M ...

and John Bradley; this part of the database, which traced all English persons appearing in documentary sources from 1042 to ''c''. 1100, was published online in 2009. Baxter was also a co-investigator of the AHRC-funded

Exon Domesday The ''Liber Exoniensis'' or ''Exon Domesday'' is the oldest of the three manuscripts originating with the Domesday Survey of 1086, covering south-west England. It contains a variety of administrative materials concerning the counties of Cornwa ...

research project (alongside

Julia Crick Julia Catherine Crick, (born 1963) is a British historian, medievalist, and academic. She is Professor of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at King's College London."Project Team"
''Exon Domesday''. Retrieved 5 March 2023. this took place from 2015 to 2018 and resulted in the publication of a new online text of the book and much other research into its content and compilation."About"
''Exon Domesday''. Retrieved 6 March 2023.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baxter, Stephen 1969 births Living people British historians Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford Academics of King's College London Fellows of St Peter's College, Oxford