User:Medievalfran

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Hello this is my user page!

I'm Fran, and I am a volunteer trainer for Wikimedia UK. You can see the events I've been involved in here, and just be in touch if you have any concerns about related editing activity.

I am a researcher in the afterlives of medieval and prehistoric literature, archaeology, and places, but I enjoy reading widely and trying out methods and theories from different subjects. I like the challenge of starting pages for people in arts and culture, especially Women in Red, and love watching a page get added to.

I completed a PhD at King's College London looking at the history of meanings of Sutton Hoo since its discovery in 1939. This research takes into account newspaper articles, TV documentaries, archives of archaeological digs and the Sutton Hoo Society, and many, many site and exhibition visits.

I'm now doing further research on the afterlives and archives of the neolithic stone circle at Avebury, and how and why people today revisit the prehistoric and medieval past to make new work.

Avebury-related editing / Reading-related editing / COI declaration

This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding these Wikipedia articles:

I am currently employed by the University of Reading. Part of my role includes encouraging researchers to develop their public engagement activity. I encourage researchers to engage with Wikipedia as part of this work, and run wikithons with academics and students.

Between July 2022-July 2025 I was a postdoc on the Avebury Papers research project. This project is a collaboration between University of York (where I am employed), Bournemouth University, University of Bristol, and the National Trust. As part of this work, I have made edits, and trained other people to make edits, to Avebury-related pages - and I continue to do so in my spare time. This work has involved auditing pages, establishing what needs to be improved, and making edits to add information, citations, research, and images via uploads to Wikicommons.

Please be in touch if you have any questions or concerns about any of this activity!

Edited pages - Avebury Papers

Denis Grant King - image added from Wikicommons

Alexander Keiller - added image and detail.

Works in progress

My full list of Pages Created can be found here. And this link shows all other contributions.

Some articles/ pages that I more or less regularly pop in on/ one day will get round to really overhauling:

To do

https://english.wisc.edu/staff/doane-alger-nick/
Donald Scragg User:Medievalfran/sandbox2
Gillian R. Overing
Kari Ellen Gade
James W. Earle
Janice Cheddie
Panchayat Collection
https://www.pendleradicals.org.uk/pendle-radicals/ethel-carnie-holdsworth/ - any medieval novels?
Source Nazis, we still hate those guys!

My first barnstar!

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	Thank you for your continued service adding to Wikipedia throughout 2020. - Cdjp1 (talk) 17:35, 14 January 2021 (UTC)