Education
Morris studied English at Oxford University before proceeding to study music at the University of York, until he finally decided to go into archaeology as an academic vocation.
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Morris studied English at Oxford University before proceeding to study music at the University of York, until he finally decided to go into archaeology as an academic vocation.
Having been involved in the discipline since the early 1970s, he has worked at a number of British universities, including the University of York, the University of Leeds and the University of Huddersfield, as well as publishing a series of books on the subject of archaeology. He has also held a number of significant positions within the British archaeological community, both as former director of the Council for British Archaeology, and as a former Commissioner of English Heritage. His first book, Cathedrals and Abbeys of England and Wales, was published in 1979, and would be followed by two others on the same subject over the following decade, The Church in British Archaeology (1983) and Churches in the Landscape (1989).
Moving on in his interests, Morris published three books on the role of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, Guy Gibson (1994), Cheshire: The of Leonard Cheshire Venture capital Member of the Order of Merit (2000) and Breaching the German Dams (2008).
He is currently chair of The Blackden Trust, a charitable organisation involved in historical and archaeological investigation of Blackden in Cheshire, the Late Medieval home of novelist Alan Garner. Morris initially studied English at Oxford University, before going on to study music at the University of York, and then finally moving into the field of archaeology.
He serves as the chair of The Blackden Trust, a charitable organisation devoted to undertaking historical and archaeological research into the Late Mediaeval-Early Modern building at Blackden in Cheshire, which has been the home of novelist Alan Garner since 1957. In undertaking excavations at the site he has been aided by field archaeologist Mark Roberts of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
In 2003, Morris was awarded an Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for his services to archaeology.
Several years later, in 2010, he was employed by the University of Huddersfield.
