Hi Folks

  I am a British archaeologist and historian who flits between the Middle Ages and
later periods as well as the two disciplines. I am co-editor of Post-Medieval Archaeology (having joined the society as a 17 year old) and I work when I can as a
freelance in commercial archaeology doing reports on everything from documents to pots. I started out life as an excavator and landscape
archaeologist/historian but I now spend more time on ceramics and other small objects. I am along time member of SHA (since the
mid 1980s) and a life member of CNEHA- and have an anthropological interest in both American and Continental European historical/post-medieval archaeology
and their practitioners. My last trip across the pond was to the amazing Newfoundland conference organised at Memorial University in 2010 when I finally got to Red Bay having bought the booklet (the one with the nice cover of a whaling boat)  on my first trip to SHA Richmond in 1991-  a major culture shock.


paul courtney
Leicester
UK