The School of
Historical Studies

Mr Jeremy Haslam

Visiting Research Fellow

Contact Details:

• Email: jh404@le.ac.uk

Research Summary || Current Research Projects || Recent Publications || Teaching, Supervision & Admin

Research Summary

• Late Anglo-Saxon urbanism
• The topography, landscape and archaeology of late Saxon and early Norman towns.
• The development of burhs of the 9th and 10th centuries in Wessex, West and East Mercia and East Anglia.
• Early 20th century architectural sculpture.

Current Research Projects

• The archaeology, topography and early development of London
• The archaeology, topography and early development of Oxford
• The development of early 10th century burhs in E Anglia.
• The origin and development of heterogeneous tenure in late Saxon and early Norman towns, and the relationship of this to the formation of burhs in the late 9th and early 10th centuries.
• The development of burghal territories in Wessex and Mercia.
• Strategies and tactics of the late Anglo-Saxon state in the wars against the Vikings, 9th -10th centuries, as well as the late 10th and early 11th centuries.
• The methodologies of archaeological and historical model-making as applied to the late Saxon period.
• Methodologies of town plan analysis, and a critique of the methods of M R G Conzen, especially in relation to the development of Ludlow and Bridgnorth, Shropshire

Recent Publications

• 2003, 'Excavations at Cricklade in 1975', Internet Archaeology 14: <http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue14/haslam_index.html>
• 2005, ‘King Alfred and the Vikings: strategies and tactics, 876-886AD’, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 13, 122-154.
• 2005, ‘The development of medieval Tonbridge, Kent’, in Wragg, E. 'The development of medieval Tonbridge reviewed in the light of recent excavations at Lyons, East Street' Archaeologia Cantiana 125, 119-150.
• 2009, ‘The development of late Saxon Christchurch, Dorset, and the Burghal Hidage’, Medieval Archaeology 53, 95-108.
• 2010, ‘King Alfred and the development of London’, London Archaeologist 12 no.8 (Spring 2010), 231-5.
• 2010, ‘The two Anglo-Saxon burhs of Oxford’, Oxoniensia 75, 15-34.
• 2010, ‘The development of London by King Alfred: a reassessment’, Trans London & Middlesex Arch Soc. 61, 109-43.

Forthcoming Publications

• 2010, ‘King Alfred, Mercia and London, 874-886: a reassessment’, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 17.
• ‘The wall tenements of Oxford in Domesday Book, and the process of burghal formation’, (possibly) Anglo-Saxon England
• 2011, Daws Castle, Somerset, and civil defence measures in the 9th to 11th centuries, Archaeological Journal