All Stories

  1. Medieval social landscape through the genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death

    Article • March 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Craig Cessford

  2. Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, March 2023, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  3. Intestinal parasite infection in the Augustinian friars and general population of medieval Cambridge, UK

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, December 2022, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  4. Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia

    Article • Science Advances, July 2022, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Craig Cessford

  5. The people of the Cambridge Austin friars

    Article • Archaeological Journal, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  6. Assessing the relative benefits of imaging with plain radiographs and microCT scanning to diagnose cancer in past populations

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, March 2022, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  7. An invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection in an Anglo-Saxon plague victim

    Article • February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Cessford

  8. Buried with their Buckles On: Clothed Burial at the Augustinian Friary, Cambridge

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  9. Fancy shoes and painful feet: Hallux valgus and fracture risk in medieval Cambridge, England

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, December 2021, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  10. Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes

    Article • BMC Biology, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ana Luisa Santos, Craig Cessford

  11. The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, September 2021, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  12. Reply to Air pollution was high centuries before industrial revolutions and may have been responsible for cancer rates in medieval Britain

    Article • Cancer, July 2021, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  13. Beyond Plague Pits: Using Genetics to Identify Responses to Plague in Medieval Cambridgeshire

    Article • European Journal of Archaeology, June 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Craig Cessford

  14. Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England

    Article • International Journal of Paleopathology, June 2021, Elsevier

    Craig Cessford

  15. The prevalence of cancer in Britain before industrialization

    Article • Cancer, May 2021, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  16. Medieval injuries: Skeletal trauma as an indicator of past living conditions and hazard risk in Cambridge, England

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 2021, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  17. Intrapopulation variation in lower limb trabecular architecture

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, April 2020, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  18. Middle Anglo-Saxon Downham Road, Ely: extending the West Fen Road site

    Article • Archaeological Journal, November 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  19. ‘A Tale of Two Sibleys’: ceramic counter narratives, globalization, individuality and the last century of the Ely pottery industry c. 1770–1870

    Article • Post-Medieval Archaeology, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  20. Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Cessford

  21. Osteobiography: The History of the Body as Real Bottom-Line History

    Article • Bioarchaeology International, August 2019, University Press of Florida

    Craig Cessford

  22. East Anglian early Neolithic monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths

    Article • Annals of Human Biology, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford, Christopher Evans

  23. Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541-750):

    Article • November 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Craig Cessford

  24. Moving in mysterious ways: the use and discard of Cambridge college ceramics

    Article • Antiquity, August 2018, Antiquity Publications

    Craig Cessford

  25. Medieval Britain and Ireland — Fieldwork Highlights in 2017

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  26. Educating Victorian Children

    Article • June 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Craig Cessford

  27. Corporate Branding and Collegiate Coats of Arms as Logos: Marked Ceramics and the University of Cambridge

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Cessford

  28. The archaeology of an eighteenth century English coffeehouse

    Article • Post-Medieval Archaeology, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  29. Throwing away everything but the kitchen sink? Large assemblages, depositional practice and post-medieval households in Cambridge

    Article • Post-Medieval Archaeology, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  30. John Webb Cluff: a postscript

    Article • Post-Medieval Archaeology, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  31. The St. John’s Hospital Cemetery and Environs, Cambridge: Contextualizing the Medieval Urban Dead

    Article • Archaeological Journal, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  32. Medieval Britain and Ireland — Fieldwork Highlights In 2014

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  33. Assemblage Biography and the Life Course: An Archaeologically Materialized Temporality of Richard and Sarah Hopkins

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Cessford

  34. An Assemblage of Collegiate Ceramics: Mid-Nineteenth Century Dining at Trinity Hall, Cambridge

    Article • Archaeological Journal, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  35. Different Times, Different Materials and Different Purposes: Writing on objects at the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge

    Article • December 2013, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Craig Cessford

  36. Life in a “Cathedral of Consumption’: Corporate and Personal Material Culture Recovered from a Cellar at the Robert Sayle Department Store in Cambridge, England, ca. 1913–21

    Article • International Journal of Historical Archaeology, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Craig Cessford

  37. Medieval Britain and Ireland in 2010

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  38. The Dolphin Inn Hoard: Re-examining the Early Nineteenth-Century Discovery of a Mid-Thirteenth-Century Hoard from Cambridge

    Article • Archaeological Journal, January 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  39. A Decorated 13th-century Sword Cross from Broad Street, Ely

    Article • Arms & Armour, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  40. Middle Anglo-Saxon Justice: the Chesterton Lane Corner execution cemetery and related sequence, Cambridge

    Article • Archaeological Journal, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  41. Quantifying the Consumption of Obsidian at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  42. Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük

    Article • American Antiquity, January 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Craig Cessford

  43. A new dating sequence for Çatalhöyük

    Article • Antiquity, December 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Craig Cessford

  44. Pine Marten and Other Animal Species in the Poem Dinogad's Smock

    Article • Environmental Archaeology, June 1998, Maney Publishing

    Craig Cessford

  45. The Pictish Mirror Symbol and archaeological evidence for mirrors in Scotland

    Article • Oxford Journal of Archaeology, March 1997, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  46. Northern England and the Gododdin Poem

    Article • Northern History, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  47. TORCS IN EARLY HISTORIC SCOTLAND

    Article • Oxford Journal of Archaeology, July 1995, Wiley

    Craig Cessford

  48. Wine in early historic Scotland

    Article • Journal of Wine Research, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  49. The Death of Aethelfrith of Lloegr

    Article • Northern History, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford

  50. Gardens of the 'Gododdin'

    Article • Garden History, January 1994, JSTOR

    Craig Cessford

  51. Cavalry in Early Bernicia: A Reply

    Article • Northern History, June 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Craig Cessford