Clare Downham

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Clare Downham
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]

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Career

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 Liverpool Profile, University of Liverpool, retrieved 15 October 2024
  2. 1 2 "Clare Downham (L 91–93)", The Old St. Beghian, no. 179, The St. Beghian Society, January 2011, retrieved 15 October 2024
  3. Britain and Scandinavian Ireland: the dynasty of Ívarr and pan-insular politics to 1014. University of Cambridge Library, University of Cambridge, retrieved 15 October 2024
  4. Downham, Clare (2001), Medieval Ireland, Cambridge: University of Cambridge, ISBN   1107031311 , p. i (author profile).
  5. "Society elects 337 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members". Royal Historical Society. 16 May 2025. Retrieved 23 May 2025.