Julian D. Richards

He began his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at North Staffordshire Polytechnic in 1980, researching burial rituals among pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons.

[1] Richards lectured at the University of York, concentrating on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age archaeology, particularly mortuary behaviour and settlement evolution, in England.

In that capacity he published Viking Age England in 1991,[4] and has worked at Cottam, Cowlam, Burdale, Wharram Percy, and Heath Wood barrow cemetery.

As of February 2018[update], he is re-examining a winter camp used by the Great Viking Army at Torksey, Lincolnshire,[1][5][6] stretching over 136 acres (55 ha).

Richards was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to heritage and digital archiving.

Colour photograph of folio 9v of the Miscellany on the Life of St. Edmund, showing sea-faring Danes invading England
Sea-faring Danes depicted invading England, from the Miscellany on the Life of St. Edmund , c. 1130 AD