[2][3][4] Raudkivi graduated from Tartu State University as a historian in 1980.
[1] From 1980 to 1981, he worked in the Central Archive of the National History of the Estonian SSR [et].
[1] He has lectured at the University of Tartu, the Estonian Institute of Humanities [et], and Tallinn University on Estonia and the European Middle Ages, as well as the early history of the Baltic countries.
Raudkivi is mainly engaged in studying the history of Estonia, Latvia, and Britain.
He has written several works about the kings of England, as well as a lengthy study of the early Livonian Diet [et].