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This is the website of Roy and Lesley Adkins, authors of history and archaeology books. Here you can find out about us, the books we have written, our latest news and our picture library. You can also sign up to our newsletter, and by clicking on Contact Us, you can email us direct.


About Us

We are based in south-west England, near Exeter in Devon, and devote much of our time to writing books. Our very first book was A Thesaurus of British Archaeology, better known by its paperback title of The Handbook of British Archaeology. Since this first book (which has recently been updated and expanded), we have written several other books on archaeological and historical themes, from detailed reference books to popular non-fiction. We have also pursued individual writing projects – Lesley wrote Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon, and Roy wrote Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle (though in the US it has the title Nelson's Trafalgar).

Our latest book is Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy, which has just been published in hardcover.

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


"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, November 2008)


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