Derek Gore
Research Interests:
The Irish Sea provinces and south west England in the Viking Age.
Conferences:
Derek has organised annual Day Schools on the Archaeology of Devon. He has also organised day schools on Late Roman and Viking Age themes.
Selected Publications:
Gore, Derek 2004 Britons, Saxons and Vikings in the South-West. In J. Adams and K. Holman (eds) Scandinavia and Europe 800 – 1350. Contact Conflict and Coexistence. 35 - 42
Gore, Derek 2004 Review of Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450- 900 by Guy Halsall. History. The Journal of the Historical Association vol 89, Issue 4, October, 626 - 627
Gore, Derek 2004 Review of Swein Forkbeard’s Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991 – 1017 by Ian Howard. History. The Journal of the Historical Association vol 89, Issue 4, October, 629 – 630
Gore, Derek 2004 The Vikings in the Bristol Channel. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 2003. vol. 14, 111- 117
Gore, Derek 2001 The Vikings and Devon. Mint Press (Series the Concise Histories of Devon)
Derek graduated with a first class joint honours degree in History and Archaeology at Nottingham in 1972 and went on to excavate for and to do research at the Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Köln. He worked briefly at the Museum in Hull before doing part-time lecturing for the Department of Adult Education at the University of Hull. He has been for the last twenty years a part-time lecturer in the Department of Lifelong Learning at Exeter. In 1998 Derek was one of the pioneers who wrote Distance Learning courses on the web for students worldwide to obtain University of Exeter qualifications at certificate and diploma levels in archaeology.
Having a joint honours degree in history and archaeology, he finds the study of both written and archaeological evidence rewarding. He has worked for the Department of Archaeology as a part-time tutor, lecturer and Teaching Fellow for the last 14 years. For the last five years he has supervised third year students doing computer modelling of ancient structures for the Department of Computer Science.
Society Memberships
Member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Member of the Society for Medieval Archaeology
Member of the Royal Archaeological Institute
Member of the Devon Archaeological Society (previously member of the committee and executive committee)
Member of the Cornwall Archaeological Society
Study Tours
Derek organises University Study Tours for Lifelong Learning students. Destinations have included Denmark, the Isle of Man, Provence, Burgundy, Hadrian’s Wall, East Anglia, Kent, Spain, Libya and Germany.