Tom Licence
British historian
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Tom Oliver Licence[1] FSA, FRHistS, is a British historian specialising in the period 950–1200, with an additional interest in Victorian consumer waste. He is Professor of Medieval History and Literature at the University of East Anglia[2] and a former director of the Centre of East Anglian Studies.[3]
Education
Licence attended Westcliff High School for Boys and has an MA in History (2002), MPhil in Medieval History (2003) and PhD (2006) from Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.[2][4] His thesis title was "England's hermits, 970–1220".[1]
Career
Licence was appointed lecturer at the University of East Anglia in 2009 and became a professor there in 2019.[4] For three years from 2021 he held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, which relieved him from teaching duties, to support him in writing a biography of Harold Godwinson for the Yale English Monarchs series.[4] For three years from September 2022 he held a senior research fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge.[4]
His work on Victorian consumer waste, represented in his book and website What the Victorians threw away, has attracted international press coverage.[5][6][7]
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries and the Higher Education Academy.[2]
Selected publications
- Hermits and Recluses in English society, 950–1200 (2011, Oxford UP: ISBN 978-0199592364)[8][9]
- Herman the Archdeacon and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: Miracles of St Edmund, ed. (2014), Clarendon Press ISBN 978-0199689194
- Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest (2014, edited, Boydell Press: ISBN 978-1843839316)
- What the Victorians Threw Away (2015, Oxbow book: ISBN 978-1782978756)
- Edward the Confessor: Last of the Royal Blood (2020), Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0300211542[10][11]
