Brief Notes on Contributors

BRIEF NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

Wendy Carruthers, b.sc., m.sc., m.i.f.a.: after studying botany at Manchester she worked as a field archaeologist for two years. She has been a freelance archaeobotanist for nearly thirty years, working on charred, mineralised and waterlogged plant macrofossils from sites mainly in southern England and Wales. In the last two years she has worked on plant remains from eight sites in Kent and is about to start post-excavation analysis of the Thanet Earth samples.

Richard Cassidy: read history as an undergraduate. After a career in the gas industry he is again a student, in the Medieval History Department of King’s College London. He is editing the Pipe Roll for 1259 which will be the subject of his ph.d. thesis. His research mainly concerns government finance in the reign of Henry III. He lives in south-east London which gives him a special interest in references to Kent in the financial records.

Joe Connor, ph.d., d.sc., was a scholar in Modern Languages at Christ’s College Cambridge, which explains his thorough grounding in Latin from school days. He graduated in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) and, after further studies, taught chemistry at Manchester University, before being appointed professor at Kent University in 1981. He is currently preparing an edition of British Library Manuscript Arundel 68, which contains further information concerning Canterbury Cathedral and Priory in the late medieval period.

Peter Donaldson: lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Kent who is currently researching the commemoration of the Second South African War, 1899-1902.

Tom Driver, b.litt., m.a., ph.d., f.r.h.s., f.s.a.: was educated at Liverpool and Oxford Universities. Taught in Grammar Schools for fifteen years and thereafter in teacher training at Chester College of Higher Education (now the University of Chester). After early retirement became a temporary lecturer (History) in the Department of Extra Mural studies, Liverpool University. Publications have included Cheshire in the Later Middle Ages and articles on MPs in the later fifteenth century. Interest in Kentish matters has come about through family connections in the Sevenoaks and Ashford areas.

Richard Helm, b.a.(hons), ph.d.: a Project Manager at Canterbury Archaeological Trust since 2000. He is presently managing several multi-period projects in Kent and, with Jon Rady, has recently completed publication of excavations at Market Way, Canterbury. He has a long term research interests in East African archaeology and is conducting fieldwork in Kenya and Tanzania as part of the sealinks Project (www.sealinks.arch.ox.ac.uk) hosted by the University of Oxford.

Adrian Herbert: joined Dartford District Archaeological Group in 1980, becoming site photographer and later Site Director. He studied Romano-British and medieval ceramics with the late Christopher St John Breen of DDAG. He gives guided walks and talks on local matters and contributes numerous articles to local history publications.

Andrew Margetts, b.a. (hons), p.g.c.e: is a Senior Archaeologist at Archaeology South-East, UCL working for the unit since 2005. He has excavated numerous sites across Kent including most recently at Thistle Hill and Warden Bay, on the Isle of Sheppey, and at Richborough, Thanet. He has been involved in commercial archaeology since 2002 following a degree in Archaeology from the University of Exeter.

Nicholas Orme, m.a., d.phil., d.litt. (oxon), f.s.a., f.r.hist.s.: Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University specializing in ecclesiastical history and the history of education in the medieval and Tudor periods.

Irene Pellett, b.a.(hons): resident in Tyler Hill since 1965 although it was not until 1990 whilst working for a degree in archaeology as a mature student at the University of York that medieval tiles became a focus for study as a dissertation topic. Since then interest has widened to the furnishing of the medieval churches of Kent.

Paul Riccoboni, b.a. (hons): was a Senior Archaeologist for Archaeology South-East, UCL, working for the unit between 2001 and 2009. Whilst at ASE he supervised a number of excavations in Kent including a multi-period site at Hawkinge. He previously worked for Cotswold Archaeology after completing a degree in Archaeology from the University of Nottingham.

Margaret Sparks, m.a., hon. d.litt., f.s.a.: has been Consultant Historian to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury since 1995. She works out of the Library and Archives Department.

Sheila Sweetinburgh, ph.d.: is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent and a freelance documentary researcher specializing in medieval English cultural and social history. She recently edited Late Medieval Kent, 1220-1540, having previously published a monograph on English medieval hospitals (2004) and has also produced numerous articles on Kentish society in the Middle Ages. She is currently working on a history of medieval Canterbury and its archiepiscopal hospitals.

Dan Swift, b.a. (hons), m.i.f.a: is a Senior Archaeologist and Project Manager for Archaeology South-East, UCL working for the unit since 2007. He has extensive experience of directing excavations in London and across the South-East including nine years working for the Museum of London Archaeology Service as well as a background of fieldwork in the Middle East. Most recent English fieldwork includes major excavations in Lewes, East Sussex, Horley and Yalding, Surrey, Tonbridge, Kent, and various sites in the City of London.

Jake Weekes, b.a. (hons), ph.d.: studied at the University of Kent from 1999-2005 and was a part-time lecturer there in Classical and Archaeological Studies and Comparative Literary Studies from 1999­-2007. He co-ordinated the South East Research Framework for the Historic Environment from 2007-8 (writing the archaeological Resource Assessment and Research Agenda for the medieval period in Kent, Sussex and Surrey) and is now Research Officer at the Canterbury Archaeological Trust. He continues to edit contributions to the South East Research Framework for publication as well as the forthcoming Kent History Project volume on Early Medieval Kent (ad 800-1220) and a book on funerary practice in the Roman world. An Honorary Research Fellow in Classical and Archaeological Studies at UKC, he has recently returned to teaching as a guest lecturer on Roman Britain at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Gill Wyatt, m.phil., m.a., b.a.(hons): is a retired librarian, who has been re-searching the social networks of the Isle of Thanet, and is currently working on the Churchwardens’ Accounts for St John the Baptist in Thanet.