Dr Simon Draper

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Biography

Dr Simon Draper is Assistant Editor of the Oxfordshire Victoria County History (VCH) having previously worked for the VCH in Gloucestershire (2007-10) and for the University of the West of England's "Family Names of the United Kingdom" research project which resulted in the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (2016).

A landscape archaelogist by training, his primary research interests lie in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods. He is the author of Landscape, Settlement and Society in Roman and Early Medieval Wiltshire (2006) and has written a number of articles exploring the archaeological potential of place-names.

He has taught a number of short courses for ICE on local history, surnames, place-names and boundaries in the landscape and enjoys combining practical and interactive learning.

Qualifications:

Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Gloucestershire

PhD in Archaeology, University of Durham

MA Medieval Archaeology, University of Durham

BA Archaeology, University of Durham

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

‘Chaundy: The History and Origins of an Oxfordshire Surname’, Oxoniensia 82, 359−61. , 2017
2012: ‘Morcote in Hartpury and the Domesday geography of Longbridge hundred’, in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 129, pp. 139–46 , 2012
2010: ‘Burhplace-names in Anglo-Saxon England’, Journal of the English Place-Name Society 41, pp. 103–17 , 2010
2008: ‘The significance of OE burhin Anglo-Saxon England’, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 15, pp. 240–53. , 2008
2004: ‘Roman estates to English parishes? The legacy of Desmond Bonney reconsidered’, in R. Collins and J. Gerrard (eds) Debating Late Antiquity in Britain AD 300-700, British Archaeological Reports, British Series 365, pp. 55-64. Oxford: Archaeopress , 2004
2003: ‘Old English wicand wahl: Britons and Saxons in post-Roman Wiltshire’, Landscape History 24, pp. 29-43 , 2003

BOOKS

2007: A Short History of Archaeology at Durham University, Durham: Durham University , 2007
2006: Landscape, Settlement and Society in Roman and Early Medieval Wiltshire, British Archaeological Reports, British Series 419, Oxford: Archaeopress. , 2006

BOOK CHAPTERS

‘The Written Evidence for the Later Middle Ages’, in C. Gerrard and A. Gutiérrez (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain, 52−65. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , 2018
‘Elmore’, ‘Lassington’, ‘Minsterworth’ and ‘Sandhurst’ in The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, Volume XIII. , 2016
‘Brightwell Baldwin’ and ‘Newington’ in S. Townley (ed.), The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, Volume XVIII. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. , 2016
2012: ‘Burh enclosures in Anglo-Saxon settlements: case studies in Wiltshire’, in R. Jones and S. Semple (eds) Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England, pp. 334–51. Donington: Shaun Tyas. , 2012
‘Burh enclosures in Anglo-Saxon settlements: case studies in Wiltshire’, in R. Jones, S. Semple & D. Parsons (eds) Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England. Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2011
2011: ‘Language and the Anglo-Saxon landscape: towards an archaeological interpretation of place-names in Wiltshire’, in N.J. Higham & M.J. Ryan (eds) Place-Names, Language and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape, pp. 85-104. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer , 2011
2010: ‘Bromesberrow’, in A.R.J. Jurica (ed.) The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, Volume XII: Newent and May Hill, pp. 95-121. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer , 2010
2009: ‘Continuity or congruity? Debating the origins of early medieval territories in Wiltshire’, in A. Smith (ed.) The Last of the Britons – Kings, Thugs or Saints? Somerset and Adjoining Counties 400-700 AD, pp. 28-36. Taunton: Council for British Archaeology South West & Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society , 2009
Numerous entries in P. Hanks, R. Coates and P. McClure (eds), The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press. , 2016

Memberships

Honorary Editor, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

Member of Council and Trustee of the Britsol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

Committee member and minute secretary of the Society for Landscape Studies

Committee member of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland

Institute of Continuing Education
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