Thomas Williams was a curator of the major international exhibition
Vikings: Life and Legend in 2014 and is now Curator of Early
Medieval Coins at the British Museum. He undertook doctoral
research at University College London and has taught and lectured
in history and archaeology at the University of
Cambridge.
PRAISE FOR LOST REALMS ‘Sceptical, scrupulous, written with wit and
flair’Financial Times ‘This brilliant history of Dark Age Britain
mixes serious scholarship with nods to pop culture, from Tolkien to
The Wicker Man… Lost Realms is a joy to read’The Telegraph, FIVE
STAR REVIEW ‘Williams makes a compelling guide as he steers us
through the darkness’ Spectator ‘Williams has a fine command of the
literary, administrative, religious and archaeological sources of
early medieval Britain. He is a diligent scholar and a likeable
writer’ Sunday Times ‘Thomas Williams is an exceptionally vivid and
exciting writer, and his wonderfully evocative recreations are just
what the generally impoverished and bewildering evidence for early
medieval Britain requires. He is also however a meticulous, honest
and fair-minded scholar, and his careful analysis of that evidence,
material and textual, always establishes its limitations as well as
its potential. His consideration of the losers of Anglo-Saxon state
building provides a genuinely original and illuminating perspective
on how England came to be’
Ronald Hutton, author of The Witch 'Thomas Williams has blended a
potent brew of mythic and material fragments to raise forgotten
kings & queens (and their stories) from the grave. An historian not
afraid of the dark and with eyes adapted to it – what he sees is
assessed sagely and described beautifully'
Christopher Hadley, author of Hollow Places
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