Nancy Edwards

Nancy Margaret Edwards, FSA, FBA, FLSW (born 8 January 1954) is a British archaeologist and academic, who specialises in medieval archaeology and ecclesiastical history. Since 2008, she has been Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Bangor University.^[1]

Early life and education

Edwards was born on 8 January 1954 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.^[2] She was educated at Portsmouth High School, an all-girls independent school in Southsea, Portsmouth.^[2] She then studied archaeology, ancient history, and medieval history at the University of Liverpool, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1976.^[2] She undertook postgraduate research in archaeology at Durham University, and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1982.^[1][2]

Academic career

Edwards has spent all he academic career at Bangor University (or its predecessors University College of North Wales and University of Wales, Bangor).^[2] She was a lecturer from 1979 to 1992, a senior lecturer from 1992 to 1999, and a reader from 1999 to 2008.^[2] In 2008, she was appointed Professor of Medieval Archaeology.^[1] In addition to her full-time positions at Bangor, she has held a number of temporary visiting appointments: she was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1991, was the O'Donnell Lecturer in Celtic Studies at the University of Oxford in 1999/2000 (lecturing on "Early Medieval Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales: Context and Connections"), and a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 2007.^[2][3]

Personal life

In 1983, Edwards married Anthony Huw Pryce.^[2] Together they have one son.^[2]

Honours

On 4 May 1989, Edwards was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).^[4] In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW).^[5] In July 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the UK's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.^[6]

Selected works

• Edwards, Nancy; Lane, Alan, eds. (1988). Early medieval settlements in Wales A.D.400-1100: a critical reassessment and gazetteer of the archaeological evidence for secular settlements in Wales. Bangor: U.C.N.W. Research Centre Wales. ISBN 978-0951183410. 
• Edwards, Nancy (1990). The archaeology of early medieval Ireland. 
• Edwards, Nancy, ed. (1992). The early church in Wales and the west: recent work in early Christian archaeology, history and place names. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-0946897377. 
• Edwards, Nancy, ed. (1997). Landscape and settlement in medieval Wales. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1900188364. 
• Redknap, Mark; Edwards, Nancy; Youngs, Susan; Lane, Alan; Knight, J., eds. (2001). Pattern and purpose in insular art: proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Insular Art, held at the National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff 3-6 September 1998. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1842170588. 
• Edwards, Nancy (2007). A corpus of early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales, Vol II: South-West Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0708319635. 
• Edwards, Nancy (2013). A corpus of early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales, Vol III: North Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0708325506. 

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