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Stephen Mileson Editor & Author

Stephen Mileson is a landscape historian who works for the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire. He teaches at Oxford University, and he has published widely on medieval landscapes and social history. His publications include an article in Past and Present on 'Openness and Closure in the Later Medieval Village'. Stephen is editor of the journal Oxoniensia. Stuart Brookes is a Senior Research Associate at UCL and author of seven monographs and edited volumes, including (with John Baker) Beyond the Burghal Hidage, winner of the 2013 Verbruggen Prize in Military History. Stuart is particularly interested in comparative landscape studies and the archaeologies of state formation, and has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these and related themes. Stuart is editor of The Antiquaries Journal and Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine.