Margaret Gelling (1924–2009)
Auteur de Signposts to the Past: Place Names and the History of England
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Œuvres de Margaret Gelling
The place-names of Oxfordshire. P. 2 1 exemplaire
Signposts to the Past: Place Names and the History of England (Everyman Paperbacks) (1981) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Winchester Mint: And Coins and Related Finds from the Excavations of 1961-71 (2012) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1924-11-29
- Date de décès
- 2009-04-24
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Manchester, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Birmingham, England, UK
- Études
- University of Oxford(St Hilda's College)
Chislehurst Grammar School - Professions
- toponymist
author
lecturer - Relations
- Gelling, Peter (husband)
- Organisations
- Society of Antiquaries
English Place-Name Society (president) - Prix et distinctions
- British Academy (1998)
Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1995) - Courte biographie
- Margaret Joy Midgley attended Oxford University and became a lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford. In 1952, she married Peter Gelling, an archeologist and professor at the University of Birmingham. Margaret Gelling became a specialist in the study of place names (toponymy). Her published works included Signposts to the Past (1978) and The Landscape of Place-Names (2000), which she co-published with Ann Cole. Prof. Gelling served as president of the English Place-Name Society and was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She was elected to the British Academy and appointed OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 22
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 148
- Popularité
- #140,180
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 29