Nicholas Michael Groom FRSA (born 1966) is Professor of English Literature at the University of Macau, an author on subjects ranging from the history of the Union Jack,[1][2] to Thomas Chatterton,[3][4] has edited several books and regularly appears on television, radio and at literary festivals as an authority on English Literature, seasonal customs, J. R. R. Tolkien, the 'Gothic' and 'British' and 'English' identities.
Nick Groom was born in 1966 and educated at Bedford Modern School[10] and Hertford College, Oxford where he graduated with first class honours in 1988.
[5] He was awarded a DPhil (Oxon) in 1994 with his doctoral thesis, Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Its Context, Presentation, and Reception.
Groom wrote an essay on The Young Ones for The Cassell Book of Great British Comedy and in 2008 he nominated Rik Mayall for an Honorary Degree at the University of Exeter.
His online essay "Let's discuss over country supper soon"[14] was used for 'Creating a Countryside', the 2017 exhibition at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park.