Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research overview
My main interests lie in the history of Britain and Ireland before the coming of the Normans with a bias towards the earlier part of the period, c.400-900. Particular interests include ethnic interaction and language shift, the development of political structures, and social and economic history.
Furth of these islands, I have less well developed interests in Late Roman and early post Roman Gaul and in Scandinavia in the first millennium AD. In many ways I feel a closer affinity to students of later prehistory than those of the later Middle Ages.
Academic/Professional Qualification
BA; MPhil, University of Sheffield
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Columbanus's Ulster education
Woolf, A., 24 May 2018, Columbanus and the peoples of post-Roman Europe. O'Hara, A. (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 91-102 11 p. (Oxford studies in late antiquity).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Imagining English origins
Woolf, A. D., 1 Feb 2018, Quaestio insularis: Selected proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, p. 1-20 20 p. (Quaestio; vol. 18).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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The Scandinavian intervention
Woolf, A., Apr 2018, The Cambridge history of Ireland: Volume 1. 600-1550. Smith, B. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Vol. 1. p. 107-130 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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On the nature of the Picts
Woolf, A. D., Oct 2017, In: Scottish Historical Review. 96, 2, p. 214-217 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Agnates, cognates, and the community of the realm in medieval Norway and Iceland
Woolf, A., 21 Jun 2023, Networks in the medieval north: studies in honour of Jón Viðar Sigurðsson. Allport, B., Bonté, R. & Orning, H.-J. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 297-308 12 p. (The North Atlantic world: land and sea as cultural space; vol. 5).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Projects
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RESEARCH LEAVE - MR A WOOLF: To comlete monography - From Pictland to Alba
Woolf, A. (PI)
Arts and Humanities Research Board
26/09/05 → 25/01/06
Project: Standard
Activities
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A Tale of Two Synods: Adomnan of Iona and Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan
Woolf, A. (Speaker)
2 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Discovering Britain through discourses of indigeneity I: Pre-British empire
Woolf, A. (Speaker)
12 Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Rethinking the Disappearnce of the Picts 13 years on
Woolf, A. (Speaker)
18 Dec 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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External Examiner TCD
Woolf, A. (External examiner)
2018 → 2021Activity: Examination types › External examination
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Externalling for Birkbeck Universiyt of London
Woolf, A. (External examiner)
2017 → 2021Activity: Examination types › External examination
Prizes
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Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (Scotland),
Woolf, A. (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Election to learned society
Press/Media
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BBC Scotland, The Last Battle of the Vikings, a one hour TV special
14/12/12
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Relating to Research
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