Dr. Mark King

Biography

Mark King studied history at Cambridge, specializing in political history of late medieval England. He has taught undergraduates while completing his PhD. Mark moved into secondary education where he spent years teaching history in a large urban comprehensive school in Peterborough. His research primarily focuses on the inter-relationship between local and national politics during the Middle Ages, particularly concerning the Welsh Borderlands during the reign of Richard II. However, he has a wide range of academic interests and has published material on various topics from Viking raids to pedagogy in teaching history, emphasizing the development of a knowledge-rich curriculum. His research interests include the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth century British politics, as well as Medieval Wales. He supervises undergraduate papers on the British Isles during the Middle Ages and is open to supervising undergraduate MPhil dissertations in areas related to late Medieval History.

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