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Max Adams has written more than a dozen books on Early Medieval history and archaeology, on trees, woodlands and wood, alongside biography and a novel, The Ambulist. He combines writing with travel, managing two young woodlands in the North-east of England. His latest works are two early medieval histories, spanning the centuries during which England, and the English state, were being formed by imaginative, powerful kings, from Oswald and Edwin to Athelbald and Offa. The Mercian Chronicles and Northumbria AD 367-867, are both published in hardback in 2025. Domesday Walking, an account of 1000 miles of walks through England looking at the English and their landscapes ten centuries after the Norman Conquest, is due for publication in autumn 2026, coinciding with the opening of the British Museum's much anticipated Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. You can find out more on Max's website, The Ambulist. There you'll find interviews, reviews, pages on books, travel, trees and woods. You can also keep up to date with book projects, signings, talks and other events. Copies of signed books can also be ordered there. Max is an archaeologist, historian and traveller, the author of numerous articles and journal papers. Born in 1961 in London, he was educated at the University of York, where he read Archaeology. After a professional career which included the notorious excavations at Christchurch Spitalfields, and several years as Director of Archaeological Services at Durham University, he went to live in a 40-acre woodland in County Durham for three years. Max was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Newcastle from 2010-2013. He is Co-Director of Research of the Bernician Studies Group
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