ann-williams-ms
Graduate of Birkbeck College (London), BA History (Hons) 1960; PhD 1964. Lecturer and Senior lecturer in Medieval History, Polytechnic of North London (now part of London Metropolitan University), 1965-88, retired 1988. Now independent scholar, researching and publishing (specialist field, late Anglo-Saxon England). Active member of local Green Party. campaigner on ecological issues, also member of Transition Leytonstone' eco-poetry performance group, E11Eco. Poetry something of a hobby (not published, nor likely to be). But I still write occasional pieces.
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