Biography

Thomas Williams is the 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

Thomas Williams is a historian of the early Middle Ages and a former curator at the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals (2017-2018). He worked as project curator for the major international exhibition Vikings: Life and Legend (British Museum 2014) and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. His books Lost Realms (2022), Viking London (2019) and Viking Britain (2017) are published by William Collins.