Clare Downham is an English academic, a medievalist and historian of Ireland and Britain and the Vikings, specialising in the era 400 to 1350.
[1] She studied for degrees in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews and in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, completing a PhD at the latter in 2003.
[2][3] In 2004, she took up a John O'Donovan scholarship in Celtic Studies from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,[4] before taking a lectureship in the Celtic department at the University of Aberdeen and then in Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.
[2] Subsequently, at Liverpool, she became Professor of Medieval History with the Institute of Irish Studies.
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