David Green

David Green is a graduate of the universities of Exeter (BA) and Nottingham (MA, PhD), and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Before joining the British Studies team at Harlaxton in 2007 he lived and worked in England, Scotland and Ireland, teaching at the universities of Sheffield, St Andrews, and Trinity College, Dublin.

My research influences and is influenced by my teaching. It focuses on the later middle ages in Britain, Ireland and France, and deals with themes central to the British Studies course such as kingship, colonialism and concepts of national identity. Initially, my published work concentrated on the career and retinue of Edward the Black Prince (c.1330-c.1376) – the subject of my doctoral thesis. More recently, the chronological and geographical scope of my work has extended. My research currently centers on two connected themes, the Hundred Years War, and later Plantagenet ‘colonialism’. This has resulted in a number of journal and encyclopedia articles, with a book forthcoming for Yale University Press which will examine the impact of the war on various social groups and national institutions.

I regularly speak and chair sessions at the annual meetings of the International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds, UK) and the International Conference on Medieval Studies (University of Western Michigan, USA). I am a member of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium Steering Committee and will be co-convening the 2014 meeting on ‘The Plantagenet Empire, 1259-1453’.

David is the author of The Hundred Years War: A People’s History (Yale University Press), which will be published in October 2014