Nancy Edwards | |
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Born | Nancy Margaret Edwards 8 January 1954 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England |
Nationality | British |
Title | Professor of Medieval Archaeology |
Academic background | |
Education | Portsmouth High School |
Alma mater | University of Liverpool Durham University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeology |
Sub-discipline | Medieval archaeology Archaeology of Britain Archaeology of Ireland Early medieval Wales Medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture Early medieval church History of archaeology |
Institutions | Bangor University |
Nancy Margaret Edwards, FSA , FBA , FLSW (born 8 January 1954) is a British archaeologist and academic,who specialises in medieval archaeology and ecclesiastical history. From 2008 to 2020,she was Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Bangor University; [1] having retired,she is now emeritus professor. [2]
Edwards was born on 8 January 1954 in Portsmouth,Hampshire,England to David Cyril Bonner Edwards and Ann Edwards. [3] [4] She was educated at Portsmouth High School,an all-girls private school in Southsea,Portsmouth. [4] She then studied archaeology,ancient history,and medieval history at the University of Liverpool,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1976. [4] She undertook postgraduate research in archaeology at Durham University,and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1982. [1] [4] Her doctoral thesis was titled "A reassessment of the early medieval stone crosses and related sculpture of Offaly,Kilkenny and Tipperary". [5]
Edwards has spent all her academic career at Bangor University (or its predecessors University College of North Wales and University of Wales,Bangor). [4] She was a lecturer from 1979 to 1992,a senior lecturer from 1992 to 1999,and a reader from 1999 to 2008. [4] In 2008,she was appointed Professor of Medieval Archaeology. [1] She retired in December 2020,and was made emeritus professor. [2]
In addition to her full-time positions at Bangor,Edwards has held a number of temporary visiting appointments. She was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall,Cambridge in 1991 and at All Souls College,Oxford in 2007. She 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". [4] [6]
Edwards is Chair of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. [7] She also served as the Chair of the Gwynedd Archaeological Trust from 2004 until 2018.
In 1983,Edwards married Anthony Huw Pryce. [4] Together they have one son. [4]
On 4 May 1989,Edwards was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). [8] In 2012,she was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW). [9] 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. [10]
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