Professor Christopher Woolgar FBA

Chris Woolgar has a long-standing interest in the history of the everyday, particularly in the medieval period in England, in the ways in which documents of all ages work, and in editing texts. He spent much of his career as an archivist and curator at the University of Southampton, before joining the history department there in 2013. His early archival work at the University of Oxford included discoveries of medieval domestic accounts, which were formative in developing his research into types of archival documents and daily life more generally. He has published on the great household in medieval England, medieval sensory perception, food and diet, and has edited texts on medieval social and economic history. Chris is currently writing a book about the connections between English people and their goods in the later Middle Ages. He has been the editor of the Journal of Medieval History since 2009.