Rory Naismith, FRHistS is a British academic, medieval numismatist and historian of Anglo-Saxon England, specialising in economic and monetary history.
He is Professor of Early Medieval English History and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
[1] As an undergraduate and postgraduate he studied in the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Trinity College, Cambridge between 2002 and 2009, and between 2009 and 2015 pursued postdoctoral research in with Fitzwilliam Museum and based at Clare College, Cambridge.
[2] He subsequently lectured for four years at King’s College London before returning to the University of Cambridge.
[1] His book on Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: The Southern English Kingdoms 757–865 (Cambridge University Press, 2012) won the 2013 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists First Book Prize.