Dr Erik Grigg

I lead on Late Medieval England 1000-1485, Dark Arts (a history of magic, witchcraft and folklore), the Transformation of the West (Late Antique 300-900), Applied Public History, Bows Bayonets and Bullets (the changing face of battle) and Battles of the Barbarians (378-1263).
 

For my PhD I studied early medieval linear earthworks (Dark Age dykes) and I continue to study these. I am also researching the Lincolnshire Home Guard.

• Women in the Lincolnshire Home Guard’ (2025) Local Historian 55.1 pp. 13-24‘
• The Linear Earthworks of Cornwall: What if They Were Early Medieval?’ (2023) Offa’s Dyke Journal 5
• The North Scarle Platoon Signaller’s Handbook’ (2023) Lincolnshire Past and Present 132 (with Sara Basquill)
• The Mysterious Blocked gateway of 1217’ (2022) Lincolnshire Past and Present Vol. 128
• Mods: a concise history (2020)
• ‘Thoughts on the Dark Age dykes of Yorkshire’ (2019) Briefing, the magazine of the Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society 5
• Warfare, raiding and defence in Early Medieval Britain (2018) Robert Hale
• ‘Lincolnshire Links with New Zealand’ (2018) Lincolnshire Past and Present 111
• ‘The name of the Battle (Battle of Lincoln 1217)’ (2017) Lincolnshire Past and Present 108
• ‘The Battle of Lincoln, 1217’ (2017) Lincs Scene April/May
• 1217 The Battle of Lincoln (2017) Lincoln BIG
• ‘The Forest of Kesteven and the Charter of the Forest’ (2016-7) Lincolnshire Past and Present 106
• ‘Boundaries and walls in Anglo-Saxon England’, a chapter co-written with Margaret Worthington in The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World (2015) University of Liverpool Press
• Lincoln and the Magna Carta: Being an account of Lincoln’s 1215 Magna Carta, the 1217 Battle of Lincoln and the 1217 Lincoln Charter of the Forests (2015)
• ‘Early medieval dykes in Britain 400-850 AD’ in Towns and Topography (2014) Oxbow Books
• ‘Eamon de Valera’s escape from Lincoln Prison’ (2011/2012) Lincolnshire Past & Present 86
• ‘The Charter of the Forest’ (2010) Living Woods September/October issue
• ‘Mole Rain and other natural phenomena in the Welsh Annals: can mirabilia unravel the textual history of the Annales Cambriae’ (2009) The Welsh History Review 24.4
• ‘Charter of the Forest’ (2009/2010) Historic Lincoln Winter issue
• ‘The Mods of Lincoln’ (2008) Lincolnshire Poacher Autumn issue
• Beunans Meriasek: the Life of St Meriasek, a study guide (2008) Cornish Language Board
• ‘The Medieval Cornish Bible’ (2008) Cornish Studies Volume 16
• ‘Fosow an Osow Tewl a Gernow’ (note that this article was written in Cornish and the title translates as ‘Cornish medieval dykes’) (2008) An Gowsva 35
• ‘Thoughts on language change in Cornwall’ (2007) An Gowsva 32
• ‘Lincoln’s medieval theatre’ (2007) Lincolnshire Past & Present 67
• ‘St Aldhelm’s Chapel’ (2007) Dorset January issue
• ‘Diaries for genealogists’ (2007) Family Tree Magazine October issue
• ‘The story of the Fiskerton skull’ (2006) Lincolnshire Unearthed 6
• ‘An old Soldier brought to life’ (2006) Ancestors 50
• ‘Bog bodies – a skull found at Fiskerton’ (2005/6) Lincolnshire Past and Present 62

I am a member of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory and the Vikings in the East Midlands network .