Dr David Musgrove

Dr David Musgrove is content director of the HistoryExtra.com website and podcast, plus its sister print magazines BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. He has a PhD in medieval landscape archaeology, investigating monastic drainage and land reclamation in the Somerset Levels (along with a side hustle in prehistoric beaver habitats in France). Since then, he has worked in history publishing for almost twenty years. He is author of 100 Places that made Britain (BBC Books, 2011), and with Michael Lewis, The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry (Thames and Hudson 2021). He regularly interviews historians for the podcast and curates HistoryExtra’s Medieval newsletter.

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