Marc Morris (historian)

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Marc Morris
Born (1973-09-14) 14 September 1973 (age 51)
Academic background
Alma materKing's College London
University of Oxford
ThesisThe Bigod earls of Norfolk in the thirteenth century (2004)

Marc Morris (born 1973) is a British historian, who has also presented a television series, Castle, on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom,[1] and wrote the book that accompanied the series. His 2005 book on the earls of the Bigod family was praised for its "impeccable research and fluent sense of narration".[2]

He was educated at Oakwood Park Grammar School, King's College London and the University of Oxford. At Oxford, he was a student of the Faculty of Modern History and Merton College, Oxford.[3] His Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree was awarded in 2004 for a doctoral thesis title "The Bigod earls of Norfolk in the thirteenth century".[3]

Bibliography

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  • Castle: A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval Britain (2003). ISBN 978-0-330-43246-7.
  • The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century (2005)[4]
  • A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain (2008). ISBN 978-0-09-179684-6.
  • The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England (2012). ISBN 978-1-4481-3602-5.
  • Kings and Castles (2012)
  • King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta (2015)
  • William I: England's Conqueror (2016)
  • The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England (2021)

References

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  1. ^ Novakovich, Mary (7 May 2003). "Pick of the day: Television". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  2. ^ Kagay, Donald J. (2006). "Rev. of Morris, The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century". Speculum. 81 (4): 1233–34. doi:10.1017/s0038713400004784. JSTOR 20463981.
  3. ^ a b Morris, Marc (2004). The Bigod earls of Norfolk in the thirteenth century (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
  4. ^ Ridgeway, H.W. (2006). "Rev. of Morris, The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century". The English Historical Review. 121 (494): 1520–21. doi:10.1093/ehr/cel328.
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