Clare Downham

Clare Downham is an English academic, a medievalist and historian of Ireland and Britain and the Vikings, specialising in the era 400 to 1350.[1]

She studied for degrees in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews and in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, completing a PhD at the latter in 2003.[2][3]

In 2004, she took up a John O'Donovan scholarship in Celtic Studies from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,[4] before taking a lectureship in the Celtic department at the University of Aberdeen and then in Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.[2] Subsequently, at Liverpool, she became Professor of Medieval History with the Institute of Irish Studies.[1]

  1. ^ a b Liverpool Profile, University of Liverpool, retrieved 2024-10-15
  2. ^ a b "Clare Downham (L 91-93)", The Old St. Beghian, no. 179, The St. Beghian Society, January 2011, retrieved 2024-10-15
  3. ^ Britain and Scandinavian Ireland: the dynasty of Ívarr and pan-insular politics to 1014. University of Cambridge Library, University of Cambridge, retrieved 2024-10-15
  4. ^ Downham, Clare (2001), Medieval Ireland, Cambridge: University of Cambridge, ISBN 1107031311, p. i (author profile).