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Article: Professor Richard Fletcher Former York University historian and author
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- March 12, 2005
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RICHARD Fletcher, who has died suddenly, aged 60, had established
himself as a leading authority on medieval Spain, the Anglo-Saxons
and the Christianisation of Europe by the time he was appointed, in
1998, to a personal chair in the School of History at York
University.
He was also particularly interested in local Yorkshire history.
He had joined the School as a lecturer in 1969, contributing to
its reputation as one of the best in the country. In 1978 his thesis
was published as his first book, but by then he was already greatly
respected by students as a teacher they were very fortunate to have
had.
In 2001 he took early retirement to concentrate on writing books,
but he was also ...