Clare Downham | |
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Education | University of St Andrews University of Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Academic, medievalist, historian |
Organization | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society |
Clare Downham is an English academic, a medievalist and historian of Ireland and Britain and the Vikings, specialising in the era 400 to 1350. [1]
She studied for degrees in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews and in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, completing a PhD at the latter in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. Fergus Kelly (previously supervised by David Dumville). [2] [3]
In 2001, she took up a John O'Donovan scholarship in Celtic Studies from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, [4] before taking a lectureship in the Celtic department at the University of Aberdeen and then in Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. [2] Subsequently, at Liverpool, she became Professor of Medieval History with the Institute of Irish Studies. [1]
Downham was a elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in May 2025. [5]