Michael Wood (historian)

For other people named Michael Wood, see Michael Wood (disambiguation).

Michael Wood
OBE
Wood in 2013
Born
Michael David Wood

(1948-07-23) 23 July 1948 (age 76)
Manchester, England
EducationManchester Grammar School
Alma materOriel College, University of Oxford (B A.)
Occupation(s)Historian, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker
Notable workIn Search of the Dark Ages (1979)
Great Railway Journeys (1980)
In Search of the Trojan War (1985)
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1998)
The Story of India (2007)
In Search of Beowulf (2009)
The Story of England (2010)
The Story of China (2016)

Michael David Wood, OBE, FSA (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late 1970s to the present day. Wood has also written a number of books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, The Domesday Quest, The Story of England, and In Search of Shakespeare.[1][2] He was appointed Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester in 2013.

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  2. ^ Michael Wood visits the HP Visual and Spatial Technology Centre Archived 20 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham.