Stephen Church

Church is an expert in Medieval History, specifically the 12th Century^[5] and works at the University of Lincoln which he joined in 2023 after working for twenty-eight years at the University of East Anglia.^[6] He completed his postgraduate work in London. He is also a trustee of the Allen Brown Memorial Trust, where he organised the conference and edited the proceedings of Anglo-Norman Studies between 2020 and 2024.^[7] The Trust also gives conference bursaries for postgraduate students and sponsors sessions at other conferences and a postgraduate reading group.^[8][9]

He has written more than thirty articles edited seven collections of essays, two medieval documents, and written three monographs on a variety of topics to do with the period 1000 to 1300^[10] His most substantial works have been on the subject of King John and Magna Carta.^{[11][12][13][14]} Church has been regularly acknowledged as strong supporter of fellow Historians in their writing^[15][16][17] and has lectured in Europe on the subject of the Plantagenet Empire.^[18] In 2010 he co-led 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.^[19] In 2015 he appeared on Saturday Extra on Australian station ABC Radio with Nicholas Cowdery to discuss why does Magna Carta still matter,^[20] 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.^[21]

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