David Shotter

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Professor

D. C. A. Shotter

FSA
Born
David Colin Arthur Shotter

(1939-03-01)1 March 1939
Died22 May 2021(2021-05-22) (aged 82)
Academic background
EducationKing's College School, Wimbledon
Alma materUniversity of Southampton (BA PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-discipline
Institutions

David Colin Arthur Shotter (3 January 1939 – 22 May 2021) was a British archaeologist and Professor of Roman Imperial History at the University of Lancaster.

Career[]

Shotter was born in London and educated at King's College School, London and the University of Southampton. He taught at Magee University College, Derry (now part of Ulster University) from 1964 to 1966 and was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Classics at the University of Lancaster in 1966.

During his career, he established and chaired over 40 annual archaeological conferences for the university's Centre for North-West Regional Studies. He was Principal of Lonsdale College, Lancaster and was appointed Professor of Roman Imperial History in 2003 and retired in 2004.[1][2]

Shotter worked to establish the Cumbria and Lancashire Archaeological Unit (1979), which later became the LU Archaeological Unit (1986). He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.[1][3]

He was also a co-founder of the Lancaster Archaeological and Historical Society and its journal, Contrebis. He also played a major role in the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, as a council member, vice-president and president (2005-2008).[1][3]

Bibliography[]

  • (with M. E. McClintock) Serving the region: a history of the North-West Regional Studies Centre at Lancaster University, 1970-2006 (Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 2006)
  • Romans and Britons in north-west England (Lancaster: University of Lancaster, 2004)
  • Ambleside Roman fort (Grasmere: National Trust, 2002)
  • Roman coins from north-west England: second supplement (Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, 2000)
  • The Fall of the Roman Republic (London: 1994)
  • Augustus Caesar (London: 1991)
  • Nero (London: Routledge, 2nd edition, 2005)
  • Roman Britain (New York: 2004)
  • Tiberius Caesar (London: 2004)
  • Rome and her Empire (London: 2014)
  • The Roman frontier in Britain: Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall, and Roman policy in the north (Preston: 1996)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "University of Lancaster Staff Intranet". portal.lancaster.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2021-08-06. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  2. ^ "David Shotter - Research Portal | Lancaster University". www.research.lancs.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  3. ^ a b Moffitt, Dominic (2021-06-22). "Tributes to 'warm and witty' uni professor with a gift for teaching". LancsLive. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
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