Alex Woolf | |
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Born | 1963 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Medieval historian |
Notable work | New Edinburgh History of Scotland |
Alex Woolf is a medieval historian based at the University of St Andrews. He specialises in the history of the British Isles and Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages, especially in relation to the peoples of Wales and Scotland. He is author of volume two in the New Edinburgh History of Scotland, covering the period between 789 and 1070. For this he won the 2008 Saltire Society award for "history book of the year".
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