Guy Halsall was born on 1964 and is an English historian and academic, specialising in Early Medieval Europe.
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Guy Halsall is currently based at the University of York, and has published a number of books, essays, and articles on the subject of early medieval history and archaeology.
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Guy Halsall taught at the University of Newcastle and Birkbeck, University of London, before moving to the University of York.
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Guy Halsall was born in North Ferriby in 1964 and raised in Worcestershire.
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Guy Halsall studied archaeology and history at the University of York, earning the first First-Class degree from York's archaeology department in 1986.
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In 1990 Guy Halsall was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Newcastle.
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In December 2012, Guy Halsall briefly attracted attention in the Times Higher Education after a University of York student newspaper, Nouse, published an intemperate message he had sent to students enrolled on an undergraduate course, concerning non-attendance at lectures.
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In June 2013, Guy Halsall was one of the signatories to an open letter criticising the proposed changes to the British history curriculum being implemented by Conservative Minister for Education Michael Gove.
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Guy Halsall argues against the existence of a unified ethnic culture for Germanic-speaking peoples, which he associates with 19th-century nationalism.
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Guy Halsall disagrees strongly with a group of historians associated with the University of Oxford, among whom Peter Heather is a leading member.
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Guy Halsall contends that the Vienna School of History, although explicitly formed to combat Nazi influence in the study of Germanic peoples, has in fact based its theories upon Nazi theories, although this is not explicitly acknowledged by them.