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David Roffe is a historian who has worked widely in archaeological units and more recently as a research fellow in the University of Sheffield. His research interests include the Danelaw, landscape history, church history, and insanity in the Middle Ages.

Much of his work has focused on the inquest as an instrument of government. He is co-director of the Sheffield Hundred Rolls Project, which aims to edit unpublished verdicts from various thirteenth-century inquests, but his main area of study has been Domesday Book.

He has published extensively on different aspects of the record and has edited five volumes in the Alecto County Edition of the Domesday text. His latest book, entitled Domesday: the Inquest and the Book (2000), redates Domesday Book to 1089-90 and proposes a radically new interpretation of the whole Domesday process.

	BETTANY HUGHES
	Bettany's talents are extensive. She has written and presented a wide variety of television programmes including Leviathan for BBC2, Wideworld for Channel 5, The South Bank Show for BBC1, Myth and Reality for Radio 4, Breakfast at Bettany's for L!VE TV and The Pier for Meridian. She also travels around the world for Discovery Today and CNN's Art Club. Before her TV career Bettany studied Ancient and Modern History at Oxford University where she set up the University's first ever contemporary art society. She's currently writing a History of Pleasure, research for which has taken her from Istanbul's pleasure gardens to the back of a circus horse!

		ALAN MACFARLANE
		Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropological Science and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He holds doctorates in history and anthropology and is the author of twelve books in these fields, including Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England, Reconstructing Historical Communities, A Guide to English Historical Records and Marriage and Love in England. In his spare time he enjoys walking, gardening and hunting for second-hand books.

	ANN WILLIAMS
	Before her retirement in 1988, Ann Williams worked as a Senior Lecturer in medieval history at the Polytechnic of North London. She is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Historical Society and a senior research fellow at the University of East Anglia. She has published several books including The English and the Norman Conquest and Kingship and Government in Pre-conquest England. Her latest book, Little Domesday, is due for publication in 2000.

		DAVID ROFFE
		David Roffe is a historian who has worked widely in archaeological units and more recently as a research fellow in the University of Sheffield. His research interests include the Danelaw, landscape history, church history, and insanity in the Middle Ages. Much of his work has focused on the inquest as an instrument of government. He is co-director of the Sheffield Hundred Rolls Project, which aims to edit unpublished verdicts from various thirteenth-century inquests, but his main area of study has been Domesday Book. He has published extensively on different aspects of the record and has edited five volumes in the Alecto County Edition of the Domesday text. His latest book, entitled Domesday: the Inquest and the Book (2000), redates Domesday Book to 1089-90 and proposes a radically new interpretation of the whole Domesday process.

	STEPHEN RIPPON
	Stephen Rippon is a graduate in archaeology, whose subsequent research has led him into the realm of landscape history. Key research interests include the exploitation and management of wetlands, and the origins and development of early medieval landscapes. Stephen is currently studying the development of medieval settlement patterns characterised by isolated farmsteads in the West Midlands, North West Somerset and the Greater Exmoor region. Stephen is also Chairman of the Council for British Archaeology (South West), editor of Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, and a committee member of the Society for Landscape Studies and Medieval Settlement Research Group. His recent publications include The Gwent Levels: the evolution of a wetland landscape (1996), and The Severn Estuary: landscape evolution and wetland reclamation (1997).

		KATHARINE KEATS-ROHAN (with PHILIP SHIRLEY) Katharine lives in the Oxfordshire countryside with her husband. They have a large garden which she has lovingly reclaimed from a near-jungle state. She enjoys walking, swimming, watching snooker, most forms of music (except jazz) and devours detective novels and thrillers for relaxation. For ten years Katharine has been engaged in a form of social history with a considerable genealogical content - rather like assembling a million-piece jigsaw with half the pieces missing! Ten years ago she had never used a computer but has discovered the enormous power they give her as a scholar, and now uses one or more computers every day, enabling her achieve results in detailed research that would be near impossible any other way. Katharine's work on the Continental Origins of English Landholders (featured in the programme) will be published in spring 2000.