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.

References

1. "BLAIR, Professor John". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
2. "John Blair to give the 2013 Ford Lectures". News. The Queen’s College, Oxford. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
3. "Fellows Directory - B". About us. Society of Antiquaries. Retrieved 24 May 2014.