Media Experience
I have appeared on the BBC, ITV and PBS television, BBC World Service and BBC Scotland radio, and have co/produced and presented podcasts and films, with the latter including a feature-length history documentary.
I have provided expert academic opinion to the BBC, ITV, and the Sunday National newspaper, and also work as a historical consultant for TV.
In my role as a Group Communications Manager for an commercial archaeology company, my PR experience and international archaeology Press list saw me get articles in news sites across the world and the cover feature in issue 411 of Current Archaeology. This built on my Press release experience with the international archaeology journal, Antiquity, which saw me get our authors a feature in the New York Times.
I am also content creator and a published photographer, having photography in the book for the BBC’s Empire of the Seas, Brian Lavery’s The Sunday Times bestseller.
TELEVISION
Digging for Britain
In January 2025, Brookside Meadows Roman villa complex in Grove, England, a site for which I managed the TV, Press, communications and community outreach, appeared on Digging for Britain, a hugely popular archaeology programme on the BBC.
It was fun to coordinate the shoot with the production company, Rare Television, and lovely to see all the hard work from the site and office teams on national TV.
Digging for Britain, S12:5. Chariots and Slaves: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026rl7
VIKING DOCUMENTARIES
In 2015, I was a Researcher on a BBC One / NOVA PBS America co-production about the Viking world and its latest archaeological discoveries. It was released as Vikings Unearthed by PBS and Vikings Uncovered by the BBC.
I suggested stories, liaised internationally with academics and museums, and organised logistics for and attended shoots in the UK and Scandinavia.
You can watch the NOVA PBS version on the PBS YouTube:
In 2019, I was an archaeologist on the excavations at Repton and Foremark in Derbyshire, sites of the Viking Great Army, which featured on the Channel 4 documentary, Britain’s Viking Graveyard.
ROMAN DOCUMENTARY
In 2024, I wrote, presented and co-produced a feature-length documentary film about the remarkable Brookside Meadows Roman villa and aisled building complex in Grove, Oxfordshire.
FILM & VIDEO
I have filmed and edited several archaeology and history films, including Viking-Age sites in Ukraine and England.
Repton Viking Great Army Camp
In 2019, I filmed this live video featuring Cat Jarman talking about the dig at Repton, Derbyshire, site of an Anglo-Saxon Mercian monastery and royal church that was taken by the Viking Great Army in AD 873 and used for part of their 873-4 overwintering.
Ukraine – Viking-Age Rus’ port
Later in 2019, I also directed and filmed an amazing discovery at a Viking-Age Rus’ site in Ukraine.
Roman ‘Curse Tablets’ – Brookside Meadows
I produced this film about the remarkable assemblage of apparent ‘curse tablets,’ or defixiones, discovered at the Brookside Meadows Roman villa and Aisled Building complex in Grove, England.
Roman well with organic survivals
I edited this video of the site team’s photographs from a Roman well discovered in Melksham that contained astonishing organic material, including shoes, a wicker basket, and worked wood.
ACADEMIC EXPERT
BBC News Online
In 2024, I was asked to provide an expert opinion on the discoveries at Repton, site of a Mercian double monastery and a Viking Great Army winter-camp.
BBC World Service
In 2019, I was interviewed by the BBC World Service about a ‘lost’ Lewis Chess piece that was about to be auctioned.
Sunday National
In January, 2025, I featured on the front page of the Sunday National as part of a piece by Alasdair Ferguson on the importance and popularity of volunteering on archaeology projects.
ITV
In November 2022, I spoke with ITV’s Sandy McCracken about the Viking-Age Govan Stones and the story of the early medieval Clyde Britons.
Watch it here: bit.ly/42jDnNZ
BBC Radio Scotland
In August of 2025, I spoke with BBC Radio Scotland about an exciting new find from Benbecula, which may be a Viking artefact from the period AD 950-1100 [more to come!].
BBC Reporting Scotland
I also appeared on BBC Scotland News for Reporting Scotland – News at Seven to talk about the Benbecula find.
BBC Scotland News source:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002hshj
PRESS RELATIONS
In 2024, I liaised with Carly Hilts of Current Archaeology to get the Roman villa complex in Grove my company was excavating as the cover story for CA411: https://the-past.com/feature/a-villa-unveiled-uncovering-luxury-living-and-ritual-activity-in-roman-oxfordshire/
Another career highlight was getting the authors of the Antiquity (92:362) article, A moment frozen in time: evidence of a late fifth-century massacre at Sandby borg, into the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/science/massacre-sweden-archaeology.html
Antiquity: Alfsdotter, Papmehl-Dufay and Helena Victor (2018) https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.21
ARTICLES
In 2017, I wrote a short history of the Super Bowl for History Hit: https://www.historyhit.com/crisis-management-nfl-origins-superbowl/
CONTENT CREATOR
I visit archaeological sites and create short films for online.
TV HISTORY RESEARCHER
My professional life started as a researcher for BBC history documentaries.
My credits include:
- What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us
- The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon
- The Lost World of Friese-Greene
- Empire of the Seas
- The Vikings Uncovered/Unearthed (BBC/PBS)
Dr Tom Horne, Viking Archaeologist 