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Michael David Wood (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late 1970s until present. Wood has also written a number of books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, The Domesday Quest, The Story of England, and In Search of Shakespeare. He was appointed Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester in 2013.
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- Viral history michael wood extended interview
- Michael wood in search of beowulf
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Honours
- Television series
- Documentaries
- References
Michael wood in search of beowulf
Early life and education
Wood was born in Moss Side, Manchester, Lancashire. He attended Heald Place Primary School in Rusholme, Manchester. When he was eight, his family moved to Wythenshawe where he went to Benchill Primary School. At the Manchester Grammar School, he developed an interest in theatre, playing Grusha in the first British amateur production of Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle. He took A-levels in English, French and History.
Wood studied history and English at Oriel College, Oxford, touring the United States for six weeks in his final year, and graduated with a second class Bachelor of Arts degree. Later, he undertook post-graduate research in Anglo-Saxon history at Oriel. Three years into his research for a DPhil, he left to become a journalist with ITV.
Career
In the 1970s Wood worked for the BBC in Manchester. He was first a reporter and then an assistant producer on current affairs programmes, before returning to his love of history with his 1979–81 series In Search of the Dark Ages for BBC2. He quickly became popular with female viewers for his blond good looks (he was humorously dubbed "the thinking woman's crumpet" by British newspapers), his deep voice, and his habit of wearing tight jeans and a sheepskin jacket. Wood's work is also well known in the United States, where it receives much airplay on PBS and on various cable television networks. The series Legacy (1992) is one of his more frequently broadcast documentaries on US television.
Since 1990, Michael Wood has been a director of independent television production company Maya Vision International. In 2006 he joined the British School of Archaeology in Iraq campaign, which aimed to train and encourage new Iraqi archaeologists, and he has lectured on the subject. In 2013, Wood joined the University of Manchester as Professor of Public History.
Personal life
His partner for ten years, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was journalist and broadcaster Pattie Coldwell. He currently lives in north London with his wife, television producer Rebecca Ysabel Dobbs and two daughters, Minakshi and Jyoti.
Honours
Wood was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society until 2007. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Arts by Sunderland University. This was followed by an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Leicester in 2011.
In 2015, he was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy.