Neil Faulkner (archaeologist)

Doctor Neil Faulkner FSA
Nationality	British[1]
Education	Skinners' School
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge University College London
Occupation	Historian Archaeologist Author Academic
Notable work	A Marxist History of the World A People's History of the Russian Revolution A Radical History of the World
Political party	Socialist Workers Party (1980–2010)
Children	3[2]

Neil Faulkner FSA is a British archaeologist, historian, writer, lecturer, broadcaster, and political activist.

Biography[]

Educated at the Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells, King’s College, Cambridge and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, Faulkner was a school teacher before becoming an archaeologist.

He is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, Co-editor of Past Worlds magazine,^[3] editor of Military History Matters ^[4] and Co-director of the Great Arab Revolt Project (in Jordan) and the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (in Norfolk, England). On 22 May 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).^[5]

Research[]

Originally trained as a Romanist, he has been excavating an Anglo-Saxon site at Sedgeford in Norfolk since 1996 with the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP).^[6] In 2016, he completed a ten-year field project looking at the military campaigns of Lawrence of Arabia in southern Jordan (the Great Arab Revolt Project). ^[7]

The author of many articles and numerous academic papers, his ten books include The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain, Apocalypse: The Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome, Rome: Empire of the Eagles, A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics, A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals, and Digging Sedgeford: A People's Archaeology. His latest book is Lawrence of Arabia's War (Yale University Press).

Media appearances[]

Faulkner appears frequently on television, both at home and abroad. His TV work includes Channel Four's Time Team, BBC2's Timewatch, and Sky Atlantic's The British. He appears as both academic specialist and political commentator. He has recently made several short history documentaries for Tariq Ali's regular Telesur series The World Today.

In 2019, Faulkner appeared on BBC Radio 4's programme In Our Time to discuss Lawrence of Arabia.^[8]

Politics[]

Faulkner is a Marxist and a revolutionary socialist activist. Having previously been a long-standing member of the Socialist Workers Party, from 1980 to 2010,^[9] and then a member of Counterfire, he left in order to set up Brick Lane Debates^[10] and the Left Book Club.^[11] In 2020 he was on the co-ordinating committee of Anti-Capitalist Resistance.^[12]

Publications[]

• The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain. Tempus. (2000). ISBN 978-0752419442
• Apocalypse: The Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome (2002) Tempus, first edition; (2012) Amberley Publishing, second edition
• A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics (May 01, 2012).
• A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals (April 9, 2013)
• Digging Sedgeford: A People's Archaeology. Poppyland Publishing. (2014). ISBN 978-1909796089
• Creeping Fascism: Brexit, Trump, and the Rise of the Far Right. Public Reading Rooms. (2017). 235 pages. ISBN 978-0995535237
• A People's History of the Russian Revolution. Pluto Press. (April 15, 2017). ISBN 978-0745399034
• A Radical History of the World. Pluto Press. (October 15, 2018). 512 pages. ISBN 978-0745338040

External links[]

Wikiquote has quotations related to: Neil Faulkner (archaeologist)

• Neil Faulkner's official website

References[]