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Howard M.R. Williams

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December 10, 1972

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Howard M.R. Williams is a British archaeologist. He received his PhD in 2000 from the University of Reading for a thesis on Anglo-Saxon cremation burial. Most of his voluminous published work treats Early Medieval Britain, though he has also published on Scandinavia in the same period and on the history of scholarship in his field of study.

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Petrifying the Past: Mother Shipton’s Cave

Claiming to be England’s oldest tourist attraction, drawing visitors since 1630, (Old) Mother Shipton’s Cave, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire can be considered a distinctive topography of memory of a legendary figure: Ursula Shipton: ‘Mother Shipton’. Run by a private company, this post isn’t aimed at ‘reviewing’ the visitor experience per se. Instead, from an academic context, […]

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Howard M.R. Williams’s books

Average rating: 3.8 · 40 ratings · 2 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Public Archaeology of Death by Howard M.R. Williams (Editor), Benedict Wills-Eve (Editor), Jennifer Osborne (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Archaeologists and the Dead by Howard M.R. Williams (Editor), Melanie Giles (Editor) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Archaeologies of Remembrance: Death and Memory in Past Societies 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in the Contemporary World: Perspectives from Public Archaeology by Howard M.R. Williams (Editor), Lorna-Jane Richardson (Editor), Lynne Goldstein it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cremation in the Early Middle Ages: Death, fire and identity in North-West Europe by Howard M.R. Williams (Editor), Femke Lippok (editor), Frans Theuws it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement by Howard M.R. Williams (Editor), Caroline Pudney (Editor), Afnan Ezzeldin (Editor) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, 6) by Howard M.R. Williams (Contributor), Joanne Kirton (Editor), Meggen Gondek (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Digging into the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Public Archaeologies by Howard M.R. Williams (Editor), Pauline Magdalene Clarke (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Offa’s Dyke Journal: Volume 1 for 2019 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars