John Blair (historian)

William John Blair, FSA, FBA is a British academic and historian specialising in Anglo-Saxon England. He is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford.^[1] He gave the 2013 Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford.^[2]

Honours

On 5 May 1983, Blair was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).^[3] He was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2008.^[1]

Selected works

• Blair, John (1991). Early medieval Surrey: Landholding, Church and settlement before 1300. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing. ISBN 978-0862997809. 
• Blair, John (1994). Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire. Oxford, Stroud and Dover, NH: Oxfordshire Books and Alan Sutton Publishing. ISBN 9-780750-901475. 
• Blair, John (2000). The Anglo-Saxon age: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0192854032. 
• Blair, John (2005). The church in Anglo-Saxon society. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198226956. 
• Blair, John, ed. (2007). Waterways and canal-building in medieval England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199217151. 
• Blair, John (2013). The British culture of Anglo-Saxon settlement. Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic. ISBN 978-0957186293. 
• Lapidge, Michael; Blair, John; Keynes, Simon; Scragg, Donald, eds. (2014). The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0470656327. 

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