When Professor of History Michael Jones learned of his recent election as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London earlier this year, he did what anyone in his field would do.<\/p>\n
He put the good news into historical perspective.<\/p>\n
\u201cPerhaps what triggered interest in my work is the society\u2019s interest in pushing deeper into the story of Britain before the Norman conquest, in 1066,\u201d explains Jones. While Britain\u2019s documentary trail after 1066 is \u201calmost continuous,\u201d he says, the story before the conquest is \u201cvery discontinuous, sometimes almost nonexistent.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a researcher, Jones has helped to reconstruct a key chapter of Britain\u2019s otherwise hazy pre-Norman history. Specifically, his scholarship explains the comings and goings of peoples and cultures beginning around the fifth century: Romans going, Angles and Saxons coming, and the Britons being pushed around.<\/p>\n
Michael Jones tells a story about the search for archeological evidence of the original King Arthur.
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