Name Craig Spence | Role Archaeology | |
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Craig Spence is an historian and archaeologist currently working at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, Lincolnshire as a lecturer on the College's History and Heritage courses. Spence was employed as an archaeologist with The Museum of London.He continues with practical archaeology every summer,directing an excavation of a Roman Villa site just outside the old Lindum Colonia as part of the Lincoln Archaeological Field School.
Author of many publications he was also principal editor and author of the internationally recognized Museum of London Archaeological Service's (MoLAS) 'Archaeological Site Manual'.Alongside his practical archaeology Spence is also actively involved in historical research,specializing in "The Early Modern City".Through his historical work he has worked with The University of London's Institute of Historical Research and The National Maritime Museum.
Publications by Craig Spence: "the Museum of London Archaeological site manual, 2nd edition," (1990).
'Mapping London in the 1690s', in F. Bocchi and P. Denley (eds), Storia e Multimedia: Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of the Association for History and Computing (1998)
"Citie ... of Stickes": Toward a material history of medieval London' London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions" (1999)
"London in the 1690s: a social atlas" (2000)
'Computers, maps and metropolitan London in the 1690s', in M. Woollard (ed.), New Windows on London's Past: Information Technology and the Transformation of Metropolitan History (2000)
"Seeing some Black in the Union Jack", History Today, vol. 52(10) (2002)
"Lincoln: a History & Celebration" (2004)