Trevor Rowley

Trevor Rowley is a British historian and archaeologist with a particular interest in landscape history. He is the writer and lecturer on post-Roman English and European history.

Trevor Rowley was educated at University College, London, and Linacre College, Oxford. Originally trained as a geographer, he moved his academic interests into landscape history and archaeology.

Trevor Rowley is a former Director of Archaeology and Public Programmes at the University of Oxford. He promoted a flourishing teaching program, fieldwork, research, and publication in these areas based in the Department for Continuing Education. Rowley was responsible for developing and directing the university's continuing education program for many years.

He also was a founder fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford (1990) and is now dean of degrees and emeritus fellow of Kellogg College.

Trevor Rowley has published extensively, and his books include The Shropshire Landscape( 1972), Villages in the Landscape (1978), The High Middle Ages (1984), and Norman England (1997), published by British academic presses. The Normans (1999) was his first book published in America.

In 2000 he took early retirement to concentrate on full-time writing and lecturing. For many years he was a guest lecturer for Swan Hellenic Cruises and Voyages to Antiquity.

His most recent book was Landscapes of the Norman Conquest, published in 2022. Although there have been numerous books examining different aspects of the British landscape, it is the first research on how the Normans shaped their towns and countryside.

Trevor Rowley is actively involved in archaeological research in and around his home village of Appleton with the Appleton Area Archaeological Research Project.