Welcome

Welcome to the website of Roy and Lesley Adkins. We are historians and archaeologists, and on this website you can discover the books we have written, see our latest news, read our growing collection of newsletters with all sorts of fascinating topics, look at various photographs we have taken, and find out a bit about us.

We are husband-and-wife authors based in south-west England, near Exeter in Devon. We devote much of our time to writing books and have also enjoyed a career in field archaeology, so we are equally at home unearthing ruins and unearthing archives. Our very first book was The Handbook of British Archaeology, and since then we have written several other books on historical and archaeological themes, ranging from detailed reference books to popular non-fiction.

You are very welcome to sign up for our free newsletters or get in touch by clicking ‘Contact Us’. If you are new to our books, we hope that this website will tempt you to try out one or more of them. So far, they have been translated into sixteen foreign languages, and they have acquired a reputation for being reliably researched and highly readable.



	The photograph of us by Ian Jackson was taken in Devon, looking towards Dartmoor.

Our latest book is Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England, published by Little, Brown in June 2013. In the United States the same book will be published by Viking Penguin in August 2013, but under the title Jane Austen’s England.

"Roy and Lesley Adkins possess that rare knack among historians: merging the academic with the narrative and providing a riveting read which also casts light where it is dark." (Navy News)