Stephen Church FSA FRHistS is a writer and professor of medieval history at the University of East Anglia and is regarded as an expert on King John.
[3] Church is an expert in Medieval History, specifically the 12th Century[4] and works at the University of East Anglia School of History department which he joined in 1995 after completing his postgraduate work in London.
[9][10][11][12] Church has been regularly acknowledged as strong support to fellow Historians in their writing[13][14][15] and has lectured in Europe on the subject of the Plantagenet Empire.
[16] In 2010 he co-lead with Professor Elisabeth Tyler (University of York) two reading groups which aimed to read Orderic Vitalis's Historica ecclesiastica from start to finish and reflect on its content.
[17] In 2015 he appeared on Saturday Extra on Australian station ABC Radio with Nicholas Cowdery to discuss why does Magna Carta still matter,[18] and co-presented the BBC programme The Last Journey of the Magna Carta King, part of the BBC Taking Liberties season, with archaeologist Dr Ben Robinson.