Dr Rory MacLellan
Rory grew up in Wiltshire before studying ancient and medieval history at the University of Winchester, which was soon followed by an MLitt in medieval history at the University of St Andrews. He remained in St Andrews for a PhD in the same subject with a thesis on the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, graduating in 2019.
Since then, he has worked for Historic Royal Palaces as a postdoctoral researcher based at the Tower of London, researching the site’s medieval Jewish history, and for the British Library as a manuscripts cataloguer and researcher.
He is the author of Warrior Monks: Politics and Power in Medieval Britain.
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