Henry Summerson


Henry Summerson is an English historian. He is the author of a number of books.
Summerson worked for the Carlisle Archaeological Unit and wrote a history of medieval Carlisle. He was then employed for a number of years by English Heritage writing a number of guidebooks on English castles. He is an editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, for which he has written 165 articles. He was Research Edition for the Dictionary's medieval and Tudor articles, and is now an associate research editor. He has taken part in the Oxford Holinshed Project.
A participant in the Magna Carta Project, Summerson has written commentaries chapter by chapter of the original Magna Carta of 1215, and its sequel of 1225.
Summerson is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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