Ballot Archive

16 Feb 2023

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Murray Andrews

Academic degrees, honours etc.

PhD Archaeology, MA Artefact Studies, and BSc Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UCL

Profession or occupation

Archaeologist

Grounds for election

Murray Andrews is a Post-Excavation Project Officer with Headland Archaeology, having extensive experience of working as a finds specialist and teaching archaeology at UCL and the University of Worcester. He has transformed the study of medieval coin hoards in England and Wales with his published Institute of Archaeology UCL PhD thesis on Coin hoards and society in medieval England and Wales, AD c.973-1544 (2019) and numerous other publications, bringing to it a new depth of archaeological analysis. This built upon his MA thesis on Coin use and circulation in the medieval West Midlands, c.1066-1544 (2013) and his work on Romano-British archaeology. His work has been recognized with the Philip Rahtz Prize of the Society for Medieval Archaeology. He is the Editor of the Worcestershire Recorder, and a Committee Member of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society and the British Academy Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles and Medieval European Coinage projects.

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