Editor: Military History Monthly 
Founder-director: Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project 
Co-director: Great Arab Revolt Project 
Fellow: Society of Antiquaries
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Author:

• The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain (2000)
• Apocalypse: the great Jewish revolt against Rome, AD 66-73 (2002)
• Hidden Treasure: digging up Britain’s past (2003)
• The Sedgeford Hoard (2005)
• In Search of the Zeppelin War: the archaeology of the First Blitz (2008)
• Rome: empire of the eagles (2008)
• A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics (2012)
• A Marxist History of the World: from Neanderthals to Neoliberals (2013)
• Digging Sedgeford: a people’s archaeology (2014)
• Lawrence of Arabia’s War: the Arabs, the British, and the remaking of the Middle East in World War I (2016)
• A People’s History of the Russian Revolution (2017)
• Creeping Fascism: Brexit, Trump, and the rise of the Far Right (2017)
• The First Modern Jihad, 1870-1920 (forthcoming in 2019)

 
Director: Military History Live
 
Lecturer: The Arts Society (formerly the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies)
 
Tour Leader: Kirker Holidays, Andante Travels, and Historical Trips
 
TV Archaeologist and Historian: BBC2’s Timewatch, Channel 4’s Time Team, Channel 5’s Revealed, Sky Atlantic’s The British, and many others