Academic Interests

About

My research interests are mortuary archaeology, archaeologies of memory, the history of archaeology, public archaeology and the early medieval archaeology of Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia (c. 400-1100). I’m a co-director of Project Eliseg, and co-convenor of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory.

Education

2000 – University of Reading, PhD in Archaeology

1996 – University of Reading, MA Burial Archaeology

1995 – University of Sheffield, BSc (Hons) Archaeology

Other Publications

Books


Gleave, K, Williams, H. and Clarke, P. (eds) 2020. Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands. Oxford: Archaeopress.https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={728A30BF-8B57-4817-8398-9A1B5CD4F82A}

Williams, H. and Clarke, P. (eds) 2020. Digging into the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Public Archaeologies, Oxford: Archaeopress. https://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id=DE9A5B19-7AAD-4FA7-A097-060E0525533D


 

Williams, H., Pudney, C. and Ezzeldin, A. (eds) 2019. Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement, Oxford: Archaeopress. http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id=%7B628712D1-5935-4649-BA16-BF3B5B6E72A0%7D


 

Williams, H., Wills-Eve, B. and Osborne, J. (eds) 2019. The Public Archaeology of Death, Sheffield: Equinox. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/public-archaeology-death/


 

Cerezo-Román, J. I., Wessman, A. and Williams, H. (eds) 2017. Cremation and the Archaeology of Death, Oxford: Oxford University Press.


 

Williams, H. and Giles, M. (eds) 2016. Archaeologists and the Dead, Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/archaeologists-and-the-dead- 9780198753537?cc=gb&lang=en&


 

Williams, H., Kirton, J. and Gondek, M. (eds) 2015. Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer. http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14947


 

Sayer, D. and Williams, H. (eds) 2009. Mortuary Practices & Social Identities in the Middle Ages: Essays in Burial Archaeology in Honour of Heinrich Härke. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 306 pages. http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/60575


 

Semple, S. and Williams, H. (eds) 2007. Early Medieval Mortuary Practices: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology & History 14. Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. 400 pages. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anglo-Saxon-Studies-Archaeology-History- Perspectives/dp/0947816151


 

Williams, H. 2006. Death & Memory in Early Medieval Britain, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 268 pages (paperback reprint, 2010). http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/archaeology/medieval-archaeology/death- and-memory-early-medieval-britain


 

Williams, H. (ed.) 2003. Archaeologies of Remembrance: Death and Memory in Past Societies. New York: Kluwer/Plenum. 324 pages. http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9780306474514


 

Williams, H. 2000. ‘The Burnt Germans of the Age of Iron’: An Analysis of Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Practices. Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, Reading: University of Reading. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342114


 

Journals

Williams, H. and Delaney, L. (eds) 2020 Offa’s Dyke Journal. Volume 2. http://revistas.jasarqueologia.es/index.php/odjournal/issue/view/ODJ2


 

Williams, H. and Delaney, L. (eds) 2019. Offa’s Dyke Journal. Volume 1. http://revistas.jasarqueologia.es/index.php/odjournal/login?source=%2Findex.php%2Fodjournal%2Fuser


 

Williams, H. and Richardson, L. 2018. Death in the Contemporary World: Perspectives from Public Archaeology, AP Online Journal of Public Archaeology 8(2) Special Issue 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.23914/ap.v8i2


 

Williams, H. (ed.) 2017. Archaeological Journal vol. 174 for 2017


 

Williams, H. (guest ed.) 2016. Mortuary citations: Death and Memory in the Viking World: Special issue of           the                   European              Journal            of                 Archaeology                      19(3) http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yeja20/19/3.


 

Williams, H. (ed.) 2016. Archaeological Journal vol. 173 for 2016


 

Williams, H. (ed.) 2015. Archaeological Journal vol. 172 for 2015


 

Williams, H. (ed.) 2014. Archaeological Journal vol. 171 for 2014


 

Williams, H. (ed.) 2013. Archaeological Journal vol. 170 for 2013


 

Williams, H. (ed.) 2012. Archaeological Journal vol. 169 for 2012


 

Williams, H. (guest ed.) 2011. Archaeologists on Contemporary Death: Mortality Special Issue, 16.2


 

Williams, H. (ed.) 2011. Reviews, in Archaeological Journal 168 for 2011


 

Effros, B. & Williams, H. (guest eds) 2008. Early Medieval Material Culture in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Imagination. Early Medieval Europe 16(1). 126 pages


 

Bradley, R.J. & Williams, H. (eds) 1998. The Past in the Past: The Reuse of Ancient Monuments: World Archaeology 30 (1) London: Routledge. 178 pages


 

Journal Articles

Williams, H. 2020. Collaboratory, coronavirus and the colonial countryside. Offa’s Dyke Journal 2: 1–28.


 

Williams, H. 2020. Living after Offa: Place-Names and Society Memory in the Welsh Marches. Offa’s Dyke Journal 2: 103–140.


 

Williams, H. and Delaney, L. 2019. The Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory and the Offa’s Dyke Journal. Offa’s Dyke Journal 1: 1–31.


 

Williams, H. 2018. Introduction: public archaeologies of death and memory, in H. Williams and L. Richardson (eds) Death in the Contemporary World: Perspectives from Public Archaeology, AP Online Journal of Public Archaeology 8(2) Special Issue 3: 1–24 http://revistas.jasarqueologia.es/index.php/APJournal/article/view/229


 

Williams, H., Smith, G., Crane, D. and Watson, A. 2018. The Smiling Abbot: rediscovering a unique medieval effigial slab, Archaeological Journal 175(2): 255–91. DOI: 10.1080/00665983.2017.1366705. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620690


 

Meyers Emery, K. and Williams, H. 2018. A place to rest your (burnt) bones? Mortuary houses in early Anglo-Saxon England, Archaeological Journal 175(1): 55–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2017.1366704http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620657


 

Murrieta-Flores, P. and Williams, H. 2017. Placing the Pillar of Eliseg: movement, visibility and memory in the early medieval landscape, Medieval Archaeology 61(1), 69–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2017.1295926. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620515


 

Williams, H. 2016. Tressed for death in early Anglo-Saxon England, Internet Archaeology 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.11141/ia.42.6.7


 

Williams, H. 2016. “Clumsy and illogical”? Reconsidering the West Kirby hogback, The Antiquaries Journal 96, 69–100 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581516000664 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620245


 

Williams, H. 2016. Citations in stone: the material world of hogbacks, European Journal of Archaeology 19(3), 497–518.                            http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14619571.2016.1186910 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/619046


 

Williams, H. 2016. Viking mortuary citations, European Journal of Archaeology 19(3): 400–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14619571.2016.1186882 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/619062


 

Williams, H. 2015. Death, hair and memory: cremation’s heterogeneity in early Anglo-Saxon  England, Analecta   Archaeologica                          Ressoviensia,      10,                          29–76. http://www.archeologia.ur.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/AAR10_Williams_np.pdf


 

Williams, H. and Atkin, A. 2015. Virtually dead: digital public mortuary archaeology, Internet Archaeology 40.                                       http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/7/4/index.html http://hdl.handle.net/10034/594441


 

Tong, J., Evans, S., Williams, H., Edwards, N. and Robinson, G. 2015. Vlog to death: Project Eliseg’s video-blogging, Internet Archaeology 39. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/554088; http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue39/3/toc.html


 

Williams, H. 2014. Monument and material reuse at the National Memorial Arboretum, Archaeological Dialogues 21(1): 77-104. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203814000117 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/336334


 

Williams, H. 2014. Antiquity at the National Memorial Arboretum, International Journal of Heritage Studies          20(4):    393–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2012.757556 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/336332


 

Williams, H. 2013. Saxon obsequies: the early medieval archaeology of Richard Cornwallis Neville, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 23(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bha.2312. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/336331


 

Williams, H. 2011. Ashes to asses: an archaeological perspective on death and donkeys, Journal of Material Culture 16(3): 219–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183511412880


 

Williams,       H.    2011.    Archaeologists     on    Contemporary    Death,    Mortality    16(2):    91–97. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2011.560450


 

Williams, H. 2011. Cremation and present pasts: a contemporary archaeology of Swedish memory groves, Mortality 16(2): 113–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2011.560451


 

Williams, H. 2011. The sense of being seen: ocular effects at Sutton Hoo, Journal of  Social Archaeology 11(1): 99–121. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605310381034


 

Williams, H., Rundkvist, M. & Danielsson, A. 2010. The landscape of a Swedish boat-grave cemetery, Landscapes 11(1): 1–24. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/311915 https://doi.org/10.1179/lan.2010.11.1.1


 

Walls, S. and Williams, H. 2010. Death and memory on the Home Front: Second World War commemoration in the South Hams, Devon, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20(1): 49–66. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774310000041


 

Rundkvist, M. and Williams, H. 2008. A Viking boat grave with gaming pieces excavated at Skamby, Östergötland, Sweden, Medieval Archaeology 52: 69–102. https://doi.org/10.1179/174581708×335440


 

Simpson, F. & Williams, H. 2008. Evaluating community archaeology in the UK, Public Archaeology 7(2): 69–90. https://doi.org/10.1179/175355308X329955


 

Williams, H. 2008. Anglo-Saxonism and Victorian archaeology: William Wylie’s Fairford Graves, Early Medieval Europe 16(1): 49–88. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0254.2008.00221.x


 

Rundkvist, M., Stilborg, O. and Williams H. 2007. Copper alloy casting at Skamby in Kuddby parish, Östergötland, Fornvännen 102, 279–281. http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/handle/raa/3170


 

Williams, H. & Williams, E.J.L. 2007. Digging for the dead: archaeological practice as mortuary commemoration, Public Archaeology 6(1): 45–61. https://doi.org/10.1179/175355307X202866


 

Williams, H. 2007. Introduction: themes in the archaeology of early medieval death and burial, in S. Semple & H. Williams (eds) Early Medieval Mortuary Practices: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology & History 14: 1–11.


 

Williams, H. 2007. Transforming body and soul: toilet implements in early Anglo-Saxon graves, in S. Semple & H. Williams (eds) Early Medieval Mortuary Practices: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology & History 14: 66–91.


 

Williams, H. 2007. Depicting the dead: Commemoration through cists, cairns and symbols in early medieval Britain, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17(2): 145–64. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774307000224


 

Williams, H. 2007. The emotive force of early medieval mortuary practices, Archaeological Review from Cambridge. 22(1): 107–23.


 

Williams, H. 2006. Heathen graves and Victorian Anglo-Saxonism: assessing the archaeology of John Mitchell Kemble, in S. Semple (ed.) Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology & History 13: 1–18.


 

Williams, H. 2005. Keeping the dead at arm’s length: memory, weaponry and early medieval mortuary technologies, Journal of Social Archaeology 5(2): 253–275. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605305053369


 

Williams, H. 2005. Review article: rethinking early medieval mortuary archaeology, Early Medieval Europe 13(2): 195–217. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0254.2005.00155.x


 

Williams, H. 2004. Death warmed up: the agency of bodies and bones in early Anglo-Saxon cremation rites,       Journal  of                         Material    Culture         9(3):     263–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183504046894


 

Williams, H. 2004. Potted histories: cremation, ceramics and social memory in early Roman Britain, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 23(4): 417–27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0092.2004.00219.x


 

Williams, H. 2003. Material culture as memory: combs and cremation in early medieval Britain, Early Medieval Europe 12(2): 89–128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0963-9462.2004.00123.x


 

Semple, S. & Williams, H. 2001. Excavation on Roundway Down, Wiltshire Studies 94: 236–39.


 

Williams, H. 1998. Monuments and the past in early Anglo-Saxon England, World Archaeology 30 (1): 90–108. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1998.9980399


 

Williams, H. 1997. Ancient Landscapes and the dead: the reuse of prehistoric and Roman monuments as early Anglo-Saxon burial sites. Medieval Archaeology 41: 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.1997.11735606


 

Härke, H. & Williams, H. 1997. Angelsächsische Bestattungsplätze und ältere Denkmäler: Bemerkungen zur zeitlichen Entwicklung und Deutung des Phänomens, Archäologische Informationen          20/1:     25–27.   https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/arch- inf/article/viewFile/16256/10112


 

Book Chapters

Williams, H. 2020. Entangled rituals: death, place, and archaeological practice, in T. Äikäs, and S. Lipkin (eds) Entangled Beliefs and Rituals, Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland: 257–269. http://www.sarks.fi/julkaisut_masf.html


Clarke, P., Gleave, K. and Williams, H. 2020. Public archaeologies from the edge, in K. Gleave, H. Williams and P. Clarke (eds) Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands. Oxford: Archaeopress. 1–15.


McMillan-Sloan, R. and Williams, H. 2020. The biography of borderlands: Old Oswestry hillfort and modern heritage debates, in K. Gleave, H. Williams and P. Clarke (eds) Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands. Oxford: Archaeopress. 147–156.


Swogger, J. and Williams, H. 2020. Envisioning Wat’s Dyke, in K. Gleave, H. Williams and P. Clarke (eds) Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands. Oxford: Archaeopress. 193–210.


Williams, H. 2020. Interpreting Wat’s Dyke in the 21st century, in K. Gleave, H. Williams and P. Clarke (eds) Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands. Oxford: Archaeopress. 157–193.


Williams, H. 2020. Undead divides: an archaeology of walls in The Walking Dead, in K. Gleave, H. Williams and P. Clarke (eds) Public Archaeologies of Frontiers and Borderlands. Oxford: Archaeopress. 221–237.

Williams, H. with Clarke, P., Bounds, V., Bratton, S., Dunn, A., Fish, J., Griffiths, I., Hall, M., Keelan, J., Kelly, M., Jackson, D., Matthews, S., Moran, M., Moreton, N., Neeson, R., Nicholls, V., O’Conner, S., Penaluna, J., Rose, P., Salt, A, Studholme, A. and Thomas, M. 2020. Public archaeology for the Dark Ages, in H. Williams and P. Clarke (eds) Digging into the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Public Archaeologies, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 1–18.

 

Williams, H., Clarke, P. and Bratton, S. 2020. Displaying the Dark Ages in museums, in H. Williams and P. Clarke (eds) Digging into the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Public Archaeologies, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 101–113.

 

Williams, H. and Evans, S. 2020. Death and memory in fragments: Project Eliseg’s public archaeology, in H. Williams and P. Clarke (eds) Digging into the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Public Archaeologies, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 172–192.

 

Nicholls, V. and Williams, H. 2020. Archaeology in Alfred the Great (1969) and The Last Kingdom (2015–), in H. Williams and P. Clarke (eds) Digging into the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Public Archaeologies, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 246–251.


 

Costello, B. and Williams, H. 2019. Rethinking heirlooms in early medieval graves, in M.G. Knight, D. Boughton and R.E. Wilkinson (eds) Objects of the Past in the Past: Investigating the Significance of Earlier Artefacts in Later Contexts. Oxford: Archaeopress. pp. 115–130.


 

Williams, H. 2019. ‘To our big boy’. Zoos and animal sanctuaries as deathscapes, in C. Ljung, A.A. Sjögren, Berg, I., Engström, E., Stenholm, A-M.H., Jonsson, K., Klevnäs, A., Qviström, L., Zachrisson, T. (eds) Tidens landskap. En vänbok till Anders Andrén. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, pp. 298–300.


 

Williams, H. 2019. Introduction: public archaeologies as arts of engagement, in H. Williams, C. Pudney and A. Ezzeldin (eds) Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 1−14.


 

Williams, H. with Alexander, R., Bursnell, R., Cave, J., Clarke, A., Ezzeldin, A., Felgate, J., Fisher, B., Humphries, B., Parry, S., Proctor, H, Rajput, M., Richardson, C. and Swift, B. 2019. From Archaeo-Engage to Arts of Engagement, in H. Williams, C. Pudney and A. Ezzeldin (eds) Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 15−35.


 

Williams, H. and Alexander, R. 2019. Dialogues with early medieval ‘warriors’, in H. Williams, C. Pudney and A. Ezzeldin (eds) Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 66−84.


 

Williams, H. 2019. Archaeodeath as digital public mortuary archaeology, in H. Williams, C. Pudney and A. Ezzeldin (eds) Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 132−156.


 

Williams, H. 2019. ‘To our big boy’. Zoos and animal sanctuaries as deathscapes, in C. Ljung, A Andreasson Sjögren, I. Berg, E. Engström, A-M. Hållans Stenholm, K. Jonsson, A. Klevnäs, L. Qviström, T. Zachrisson (eds). Tidens landscakap. En väanbok till Anders Andrén. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, pp. 298−300.


 

Williams, H. 2019. Dead Relevant: Introducing The Public Archaeology of Death, in H. Williams, B. Wills-Eve and J. Osborne (eds) The Public Archaeology of Death, Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 1–16.


 

Evans, S. and Williams, H. 2019. Death’s diversity: the case of Llangollen Museum, in H. Williams, B. Wills-Eve and J. Osborne and (eds) The Public Archaeology of Death, Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 37–54.


 

Walsh, M. and Williams, H. 2019. Displaying the deviant: Sutton Hoo’s sand bodies, in H. Williams, B. Wills-Eve and J. Osborne (eds) The Public Archaeology of Death, Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 55–72.


 

Watson, A. and Williams, H. 2019. Envisioning Cremation: Art and Archaeology, in H. Williams, B. Wills-Eve and J. Osborne (eds) The Public Archaeology of Death, Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 113–132.


 

Williams, H. 2019. Death’s drama: mortuary practice in Vikings Season 1–4, in H. Williams, B. Wills-Eve and J. Osborne (eds) The Public Archaeology of Death, Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 155–182.


 

Williams, H. 2017. Remembering and forgetting the medieval dead: exploring death, memory and material culture in monastic archaeology, in R. Gilchrist and G. L. Watson (eds) Medieval Archaeology: Volume IV: Medieval Social Archaeology, London: Routledge, pp. 168-93.


 

Williams, H., Cerezo-Román, J.I., and Wessman, A. (eds) 2017. Introduction: Archaeologies of Cremation, in J.I. Cerezo-Román, A. Wessman and H. Williams (eds) Cremation and the Archaeology of Death, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1–24 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620512


 

Wessman, A. and Williams, H. 2017. Building for the cremated dead, in J.I. Cerezo-Román, A. Wessman and H. Williams (eds) Cremation and the Archaeology of Death, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177–98. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620513


 

Williams, H. and Wessman, A. 2017. The contemporary archaeology of urban cremation, in J.I. Cerezo-Román, A. Wessman and H. Williams (eds) Cremation and the Archaeology of Death, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 266–96 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620514


 

Williams, H. 2016. Ethnographies for early Anglo-Saxon cremation, in I. Riddler, L. Keys, and J. Soulat (eds) Le témoignage de la culture matérielle: mélanges offerts au Professeur Vera Evison/ The Evidence of Material Culture: Studies in Honour of Professor Vera Evison, Europe Médiévale 10, Autun: Éditions Mergoil, pp. 139–54 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620242


 

Giles, M. and Williams, H. 2016. Introduction: mortuary archaeology in contemporary society, in H. Williams and M. Giles (eds) Archaeologists and the Dead, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1–20. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/618943


 

Williams, H. 2016. Firing the imagination: cremation in the modern museum, in H. Williams and M. Giles (eds) Archaeologists and the Dead: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 293–332. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/618942


 

Semple, S. and Williams, H. 2015. Landmarks for the dead: exploring Anglo-Saxon mortuary geographies, in M. Clegg Hyer and G. R. Owen-Crocker (eds) The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, Vol. II of The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 137–61 http://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/60534 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/594429


 

Williams, H. 2015. Beowulf and archaeology: megaliths imagined and encountered in Early Medieval Europe, in M. Diaz-Guardamino Uribe, L. García Sanjuán and D. Wheatley (eds) The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman and Medieval Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 77-97. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-lives-of-prehistoric- monuments-in-iron-age-roman-and-medieval-europe-9780198724605?cc=gb&lang=en& http://chesterrep.openrepository.com/cdr/handle/10034/336898


 

Williams, H., Kirton, J. and Gondek, M. 2015. Introduction: stones in substance, space and time, in. H. Williams, J. Kirton and M. Gondek (eds) Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography,                 Landscape.     Woodbridge:                       Boydell            and                   Brewer,      pp.       1-34. http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14947 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/594442


 

Williams, H. 2015. Hogbacks: the materiality of solid spaces, in H. Williams, J. Kirton and M. Gondek (eds) Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 241-68 http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14947 http://hdl.handle.net/10034/594430


 

Williams, H. 2015. Towards an archaeology of cremation, in C.W. Schmidt & S. Symes (eds) The Analysis of Burned Human Remains, 2nd Edition, London: Academic Press, pp.259-93. http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780128004517&pagename=search http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620246


 

Williams, H. 2014. Memory through monuments: movement and temporality in Skamby’s boat graves, in H. Alexandersson, A. Andreeff, and A. Bünz (eds) Med hjärta och hjärna. En vänbok till professor Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh, GOTARC Series A, Gothenburg Archaeological Studies, vol. 5, Göteborg: Göteborgs Universitet, Institutionen för historiska studier, pp. 397-414. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/337528


 

Cerezo-Román, J. I. & Williams, H. 2014. Future directions for the archaeology of cremation, in I. Kuijt, C. P. Quinn and G. Cooney (eds) Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, pp. 240-55. http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2504.htm. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/555819


 

Williams, H. 2014. A well-urned rest: cremation and inhumation in early Anglo-Saxon England, in I. Kuijt, C.P. Quinn and G. Cooney (eds) Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, pp. 93-118. http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2504.htm http://hdl.handle.net/10034/555812


 

Meyers, K. and Williams, H. 2014. Blog bodies: mortuary archaeology and blogging, in D. Rocks- Macqueen and C. Webster (eds) Blogging Archaeology, E-book: Succinct Research, pp. 137–70. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/337528


 

Williams, H. 2013. Death, memory and material culture: catalytic commemoration and the cremated dead, in S. Tarlow and L. Nilsson Stutz (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 195-208. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/336963


 

Nugent, R. & Williams, H. 2012. Sighted surfaces: ocular agency in early Anglo-Saxon cremation burials, in I-M. Back Danielsson, F. Fahlander & Y. Sjöstrand (eds) Encountering Images: Materialities, Perceptions, Relations. Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 57, Stockholm: Stockholm University, pp. 187-208. http://www.mikroarkeologi.se/publications/encounteringimagery/11.Howard_Ruth.pdf


 

Williams, H. 2012. Ash and antiquity: archaeology and cremation in contemporary Sweden, in A. M. Jones, J. Pollard, M. J. Allen and J. Gardiner (eds) Image, Memory and Monumentality: Archaeological Engagements with the Material World, Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 207-217.


 

Williams, H. 2011. Remembering elites: early medieval stone crosses as commemorative technologies, in L. Boye, P. Ethelberg, L. Heidemann Lutz, S. Kleingärtner, P. Kruse, L. Matthes and A. B. Sørensen (eds) Arkæologi i Slesvig/Archäologie in Schleswig. Sonderband “Det 61. Internationale Sachsensymposion 2010” Haderslev, Denmark. Neumünster: Wachholtz, pp.13-32. https://www.academia.edu/521529/Williams_H._2011._Remembering_elites_Early_medieval_stone_crosses_as_commemorative_technologies_


 

Williams, H. 2011. Mortuary practices in early Anglo-Saxon England, in H. Hamerow, D. Hinton and S. Crawford (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 238-59.


 

Content, S. & Williams, H. 2010. Creating the Pagan English, in M. Carver, A. Sanmark & S. Semple (eds) Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited, Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 181-200.


 

Williams, H. 2010. At the funeral, in M. Carver, A. Sanmark & S. Semple (eds) Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited, Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 67-83.


 

Williams, H. 2010. Engendered bodies and objects of memory in Final Phase graves, in J. Buckberry & A. Cherryson (eds) Burial in Later Anglo-Saxon England c. 650 – 1100 AD, Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 24-36. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/311981


 

Williams, H. & Sayer, D. 2009. Halls of mirrors: death & identity in medieval archaeology, in D. Sayer & H. Williams (eds) Mortuary Practices & Social Identities in the Middle Ages: Essays in Burial Archaeology in Honour of Heinrich Härke. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, pp. 1-22.


 

Williams, H. 2009. On display: envisioning the early Anglo-Saxon dead, in D. Sayer. & H. Williams (eds) Mortuary Practices & Social Identities in the Middle Ages: Essays in Burial Archaeology in Honour of Heinrich Härke. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, pp. 170-206.


 

Williams, H. 2008. Towards an archaeology of cremation, in C.W. Schmidt & S. Symes (eds) The Analysis of Burned Human Remains, London: Academic Press, pp.239-269.


 

Williams, H. 2007. “Burnt Germans”, Alemannic graves and the origins of Anglo-Saxon archaeology, in S. Burmeister, H. Derks and J. von Richthofen (eds), Zweiundvierzig. Festschrift für Michael Gebühr zum 65. Geburtstag, Internationale Archäologie – Studia honoraria 25 Rahden: Westf, pp. 229-238.


 

Williams, H. 2007. Forgetting the Britons in Victorian Anglo-Saxon archaeology, in N. Higham (ed.) Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, Woodbridge: Boydell, pp. 27-41. https://boydellandbrewer.com/britons-in-anglo-saxon-england-hb.html


 

Williams, H. 2006. Digging Saxon graves in Victorian Britain, in R. Pearson (ed.) The Victorians and the Ancient World: Archaeology and Classicism in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 61-80.


 

Holtorf, C. & Williams, H. 2006. Landscapes & memories, in D. Hicks & M. Beaudray (eds) Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 235-54.


 

Williams, H. 2005. Cremation in early Anglo-Saxon England – past, present and future research, in H- J. Häβler (eds.) Studien zur Sachsenforchung 15, Oldenburg: Isensee, pp. 533-49.


 

Williams, H. 2005. Animals, ashes & ancestors, in A. Pluskowski (ed.) Beyond Skin and Bones? New Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in the Historical Past, Oxford: BAR International Series 1410, pp. 19-40.


 

Williams, H. 2004. Assembling the dead, in A. Pantos & S. Semple (eds.) Assembly Places and Practices in Medieval Europe. Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp. 109–34.


 

Williams, H. 2004. Artefacts in early medieval graves – a new perspective, in R. Collins & J. Gerrard (eds.) Debating Late Antiquity in Britain AD300-700, Oxford: BAR British Series 365, pp. 89– 102.


 

Williams, H. 2004. Ephemeral monuments and social memory in early Roman Britain, in B. Croxford, H. Eckardt, J. Meade & J. Weekes (eds) TRAC 2003: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 51–61.


 

Williams, H. 2003. Introduction: The archaeology of death, memory and material culture, in H. Williams (ed.) Archaeologies of Remembrance. Death and Memory in Past Societies. New York: Kluwer/Plenum. pp. 1–24.


 

Eckardt, H. & Williams, H. 2003. Objects without a past? The use of Roman objects in early Anglo- Saxon graves, in H. Williams (ed.) Archaeologies of Remembrance. Death and Memory in Past Societies. New York: Kluwer/Plenum. pp. 141-170.


 

Williams, H. 2003. Remembering and forgetting the medieval dead, in H. Williams (ed.) Archaeologies of Remembrance. Death and Memory in Past Societies. New York: Kluwer/Plenum, pp. 227–54.


 

Williams, H. 2002. Cemeteries as central places: landscape and identity in early Anglo-Saxon England, in B. Hårdh & L. Larsson (eds.) Central Places in the Migration and Merovingian Periods. Papers from the 52nd Sachsensymposium. Lund: Almqvist, pp. 341–62.


 

Williams, H. 2002. “The Remains of Pagan Saxondom”? studying Anglo-Saxon cremation practices, in S. Lucy & A. Reynolds (eds) Burial in Early Medieval England and Wales. Leeds: Maney, Society of Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 17, pp. 47–71.


 

Williams, H. 2001. Death, memory and time: a consideration of mortuary practices at Sutton Hoo, in C. Humphrey & W. Ormrod (eds.) Time in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell &  Brewer.  pp. 35–71.


 

Williams, H. 2001. An ideology of transformation: cremation rites and animal sacrifice in early Anglo- Saxon England, in. N. Price (ed.) The Archaeology of Shamanism. London: Routledge. pp. 193– 212.


 

Williams, H. 1999. Placing the dead: investigating the location of wealthy barrow burials in seventh century England, in M. Rundkvist (ed) Grave Matters: Eight Studies of Burial Data from the first millennium AD from Crimea, Scandinavia and England. Oxford: BAR International Series 781, pp. 57–86.


 

Williams, H. 1999. Identities and cemeteries in Roman and early medieval archaeology, in P. Baker, C. Forcey, S.Jundi & R. Witcher (eds). TRAC 98 Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Oxford: Oxbow Books. pp. 96-108


 

Williams, H. 1998. The ancient monument in Romano-British ritual practices, in C. Forcey, J. Hawthorne & R. Witcher (eds). TRAC 97 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference. Oxford: Oxbow Books pp. 71–87.


 

 

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