Dawn Marie Hadley FSA (born 1967) is a British historian and archaeologist, who is best known for her research on the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age periods, the study of childhood, and gender in medieval England.
[4] Hadley is Director of White Rose College of Arts and Humanities, Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York.
Hadley, along with Dr Jennifer Crangle and Dr Elizabeth Craig-Atkins (University of Sheffield), led the Rothwell Charnel Chapel Project’,[7] which focuses on the 13th century charnel chapel at Holy Trinity Church, in Rothwell, Northamptonshire.
[8] Building on the late Mark Blackburn's identification and characterisation of the site,[9] the new project focused on the legacy of the Viking army in the area, its interaction with the local community, the development of Anglo-Saxon towns, and the changing nature of commerce during the Anglo-Saxon period at Torksey.
The book is based on the research project led by Hadley and Moreland on previous excavations of the castle site.