Richard Morris, OBE (born 8 October 1947)[1] is a British writer and archaeologist who explores landscape, the archaeology of churches and battlefields, and cultural and aviation history.

Morris was born in Birmingham and grew up in north Worcestershire, where his father was the first vicar of the motor industry parish of Longbridge.

[4] Morris aimed initially at a career in music but turned to archaeology in 1971 as a member of the team excavating under York Minster.

Time’s Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination (2012), Yorkshire (2018) and Evensong (2021) are a trio of books in which events from his and his family’s lives are put in conversation with larger and longer narratives.

While at Leeds, Morris worked with the archaeologist Glenn Foard to produce an archaeological resource assessment of English battlefields.

[16] He has written for the singer and director Linda Kitchen,[17] the York Shakespeare Project,[18] Hilary Elfick’s An Ordinary Storm,[19] and the west Wales Côr Aberteifi.