Tom Williamson is Professor of Landscape History at the University of East Anglia and has lived in Norfolk since 1984. He has researched and written on agricultural history, landscape archaeology, and the history of landscape design, as well as on aspects of historical ecology and habitat history. His books on the latter subjects include Water Meadows: History, Ecology and Conservation (2007); Rabbits, Warrens and Archaeology (2008); Ancient Trees in the Landscape (with Gerry Barnes, 2011); An Environmental History of Wildlife in England, 1650-1950 (2013); Re-thinking Ancient Woodland (with Gerry Barnes, 2015) and The Orchards of Eastern England: History, Ecology and Place (2021).
