Dawn Hadley

Born in Walsall, Hadley studied Modern History at the Universities of Hull and Birmingham.[2] She was a temporary lecturer in History at the University of Leeds.[3] In 1996, Hadley was hired by the University of Sheffield as a lecturer.[2] From 2009 to 2018, Hadley was a Professor at the University. She served as Faculty Director of Post-Graduate Studies from 2009 to 2013. She was promoted to Head of Department in 2014. She also was Acting Vice-President for Arts and Humanities at the University from 2017 to 2018.

Hadley joined the University of York in 2018. She has written several publications on Anglo-Saxon culture and society and Viking-Age history. Her primary research focus is the study of childhood, gender, migration, and funerary rituals.[4] Hadley is Director of White Rose College of Arts and Humanities, Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York.[5]

Hadley's most recent research includes contributions to The Rothwell Charnel Chapel Project,[6] the Sheffield Castle project and Tents to Towns: the Viking Great Army and its Legacy project. Hadley, along with Dr Jennifer Crangle and Dr Elizabeth Craig-Atkins (University of Sheffield), led the Rothwell Charnel Chapel Project’,[7] which focuses on the 13th century charnel chapel at Holy Trinity Church, in Rothwell, Northamptonshire. The below-ground chapel house contains one of two remaining medieval ossuaries in England.[6]

Tents to Towns, a four year extension of an earlier research project conducted by Dr. Julian Richards from 2011-2018, on the 9th century Viking winter camp at Torksey, Lincolnshire, continued under the leadership of Richards and Hadley. Building on the late Mark Blackburn's identification and characterisation of the site,[8] the new project focused on the legacy of the Viking army in the area, its interaction with the local community, the development of Anglo-Saxon fortified settlements, and the changing nature of commerce during the Anglo-Saxon period at Torksey.[9] Hadley has contributed to a new book led by Prof. John Moreland (University of Sheffield) on Sheffield Castle, which was destroyed (slighted) during the English Civil War. The book is based on the research project led by Moreland and Dr Gareth Dean on previous excavations of the castle site.[10]

• Hadley, Dawn M. (2001). Death in Medieval Engand: An Archaeology. Tempus. ISBN 9780752414706.
• Hadley, Dawn M. (2007). The Vikings in England: Settlement, Society and Culture (Manchester Medieval Studies). Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0719059827.

• Hadley, Dawn M.; Dyer, Christopher, eds. (2017). The Archaeology of the 11th Century: Continuities and Transformations (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs). Routledge. ISBN 978-1138201156.
• Crawford, Sally; Hadley, Dawn; Shepherd, Gillian, eds. (2018). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Childhood (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199670697.
• Hadley, Dawn M.; Richards, Julian D., eds. (2000). Cultures in Contact: Scandinavian Settlement in England in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Brepols Publishers. ISBN 9782503509785.

• Hadley, D.M. (2000). "Burial practices in the northern Danelaw". Northern History. 36 (2): 192–216.
• Hadley, Dawn; Buckberry, Jo (2007). "An Anglo-Saxon Execution Cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire". Oxford Journal of Archeology: 309–329.
• Hadley, Dawn (2008). "Warriors, Heroes and Companions: Negotiating Masculinity in Viking-Age England". Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History. 15: 270–284.
• Hadley, D.M.; Hemer, K.A. (2011). "Microcosms of Migration: Children and Early Medieval Population Movement". Childhood in the Past. 4 (1): 63–78.
• Crewe, V.A.; Hadley, D.M. (2013). "Uncle Tom was there, in crockery': Material Culture and a Victorian Working-class Childhood". Childhood in the Past. 6 (2): 89–105.
• Hadley, D.M; Richards, J.D. (2018). "In search of the Viking Great Army: Beyond the Winter Camps". Medieval Settlement Research. 33: 1–17. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
• Hadley, Dawn; et al. (2019). "Charnel practices in medieval England: new perspectives" (PDF). Mortality. 24 (2): 145–166. Retrieved 19 May 2020.