He specialises in lordship in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England, and the Domesday Book.
Born in 1969,[1] Baxter completed his undergraduate degree in modern history at Wadham College, Oxford,[2] graduating in 1991 with a double first.
[3] From 1991 to 1997, he worked in the private sector, firstly for a strategic management consultancy firm and then an investment bank in London, before returning to Oxford to complete a doctorate at Christ Church between 1997 and 2001.
[3] His DPhil was awarded in 2002 for his thesis "The Leofwinesons: power, property and patronage in the early English kingdom", which was supervised by Patrick Wormald.
[6] Baxter was a co-director for the second phase of the AHRC-funded Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) project, alongside Dame Janet Nelson, Simon Keynes, Harold Short and John Bradley;[2][7] this part of the database, which traced all English persons appearing in documentary sources from 1042 to c. 1100, was published online in 2009.