David R. Bates#
Membership Number: | 2669 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
Elected: | 2009 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Professorial Fellow and Emeritus Professor in Medieval History, University of East Anglia
- 2009 - 2012 Holder of Chaire d’Excellence in the history of the Normans, University of Caen Basse-Normandie
- 2008 - 2010 Professor of Medieval History, University of East Anglia
- 2003 - 2008 Director of the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of History, University of London
- 1994 - 2003 Edwards Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow, 1 October 1994 until 30 September 2003
- 1988 - 1992 Head of History and Welsh History, University of Wales, College of Cardiff
- 1991 - 1994 Reader in History, University of Wales, College of Cardiff
- 1988 - 1990 Senior Lecturer in History, University College, Cardiff, 1987-88 and University of Wales, College of Cardiff
- 1973 - 1987 Lecturer in History, University College, Cardiff
- 1971 - 1973 Fellow of the University of Wales, Department of History, University College, Cardiff, 1971-73
- 1969 - 1971 Research Assistant, Documents Section, Imperial War Museum, London, (Head of Section, 1971)
Fields of Scholarship
- History of Britain and France during the period from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Prix du Livre d'Art du Syndicat National des Antiquaires
- 2000 Honorary doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa), University of Caen Normandie
- 2019 Prix Dumanoir
- 2019 President of the Battle and District Historical Society
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Centenary Fellow of the Historical Association
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- Honorary fellow of the Institute of Historical Research
- Life Member of Clare Hall in the University of Cambridge
- Vice-president of the Dugdale Society
- 2020 La Tapisserie de Bayeux (co-authored with Xavier Barral i Altet) was awarded ‘Le Prix SNA du Livre d’Art 2020’ by the Syndicat National des Antiquaires