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Thomas Williams is the best-selling author of Lost Realms, Viking Britain and Viking London

““Williams is an exceptionally vivid and exciting writer […] a meticulous, honest and fair-minded scholar”

Professor Ronald Hutton, author of The Witch and Pagan Britain

A historian of the early Middle Ages and a former curator at the British Museum, Thomas worked as project curator for the major international exhibition Vikings: Life and Legend (British Museum 2014). His doctoral research was undertaken at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology and he is a Fellow and Trustee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. His books Lost Realms (2022), Viking London (2019) and Viking Britain (2017) are published by William Collins.