Dr Erik Grigg

Lecturer in History

erik.grigg@bishopg.ac.uk

I have a wide background in teaching both academically and in the heritage sector (in museums and castles). My primary focus is early medieval Britain, but I also take an interest in the Home Guard, Magna Carta, the Cornish language, the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Vikings, Forest Law and warfare in history. I give regular talks to history groups throughout the East Midlands.

Related courses:

I lead on Late Medieval England 1000-1485, Dark Arts (a history of magic, witchcraft and folklore), the Transformation of the West (Late Antique 300-900), Professional Contexts & Public History and Bows Bayonets and Bullets (the changing face of battle).

For my PhD I studied early medieval linear earthworks (Dark Age dykes) and I continue to study these. I am also researching the Lincolnshire Home Guard.

‘The Linear Earthworks of Cornwall: What if They Were Early Medieval?’ (2023) Offa’s Dyke Journal 5‘The North Scarle Platoon Signaller’s Handbook’ (2023) Lincolnshire Past and Present 132 (with Sara Basquill)‘The Mysterious Blocked gateway of 1217’ (2022) Lincolnshire Past and Present Vol. 128
Mods: a concise history (2020)
‘Thoughts on the Dark Age dykes of Yorkshire’ (2019) Briefing, the magazine of the Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society 5
Warfare, raiding and defence in Early Medieval Britain (2018) Robert Hale
‘Lincolnshire Links with New Zealand’ (2018) Lincolnshire Past and Present 111
‘The name of the Battle (Battle of Lincoln 1217)’ (2017) Lincolnshire Past and Present 108
‘The Battle of Lincoln, 1217’ (2017) Lincs Scene April/May
1217 The Battle of Lincoln (2017) Lincoln BIG
‘The Forest of Kesteven and the Charter of the Forest’ (2016-7) Lincolnshire Past and Present 106
‘Boundaries and walls in Anglo-Saxon England’, a chapter co-written with Margaret Worthington in The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World (2015) University of Liverpool Press
Lincoln and the Magna Carta: Being an account of Lincoln’s 1215 Magna Carta, the 1217 Battle of Lincoln and the 1217 Lincoln Charter of the Forests (2015)
‘Early medieval dykes in Britain 400-850 AD’ in Towns and Topography (2014) Oxbow Books
‘Eamon de Valera’s escape from Lincoln Prison’ (2011/2012) Lincolnshire Past & Present 86
‘The Charter of the Forest’ (2010) Living Woods September/October issue
‘Mole Rain and other natural phenomena in the Welsh Annals: can mirabilia unravel the textual history of the Annales Cambriae’ (2009) The Welsh History Review 24.4
‘Charter of the Forest’ (2009/2010) Historic Lincoln Winter issue
‘The Mods of Lincoln’ (2008) Lincolnshire Poacher Autumn issue
Beunans Meriasek: the Life of St Meriasek, a study guide (2008) Cornish Language Board
‘The Medieval Cornish Bible’ (2008) Cornish Studies Volume 16
‘Fosow an Osow Tewl a Gernow’ (note that this article was written in Cornish and the title translates as ‘Cornish medieval dykes’) (2008) An Gowsva 35
‘Thoughts on language change in Cornwall’ (2007) An Gowsva 32
‘Lincoln’s medieval theatre’ (2007) Lincolnshire Past & Present 67
‘St Aldhelm’s Chapel’ (2007) Dorset January issue
‘Diaries for genealogists’ (2007) Family Tree Magazine October issue
‘The story of the Fiskerton skull’ (2006) Lincolnshire Unearthed 6
‘An old Soldier brought to life’ (2006) Ancestors 50
‘Bog bodies – a skull found at Fiskerton’ (2005/6) Lincolnshire Past and Present 62