Roger Collins was educated in Eastbourne and Oxford, where he studied Modern History – the period starting in AD 284, which suited him ideally as, by inclination, training, passion and profession, he was and remains primarily a historian of Western Europe between the end of the Roman Empire and the tenth century. He has, however, on occasion, deviated backwards in time to the Neolithic in a study of the Basques and forward to the twenty-first century in a history of the papacy. His scholarly interests, not least in Spanish history, have resulted in the publication of eighteen books, plus another three he edited, and over seventy academic articles of greater or lesser readability. This year he will become the only author to have written three books on the subject of the Chronicle of the Pseudo-Fredegar, a fact unnoticed by the Guinness World Records.

Roger Collins was educated in Eastbourne and Oxford, where he studied Modern History – the period starting in AD 284, which suited him ideally as, by inclination, training, passion and profession, he was and remains primarily a historian of Western Europe between the end of the Roman Empire and the tenth century. He has, however, on occasion, deviated backwards in time to the Neolithic in a study of the Basques and forward to the twenty-first century in a history of the papacy. His scholarly interests, not least in Spanish history, have resulted in the publication of eighteen books, plus another three he edited, and over seventy academic articles of greater or lesser readability. This year he will become the only author to have written three books on the subject of the Chronicle of the Pseudo-Fredegar, a fact unnoticed by the Guinness World Records.

Roger Collins was educated in Eastbourne and Oxford, where he studied Modern History – the period starting in AD 284, which suited him ideally as, by inclination, training, passion and profession, he was and remains primarily a historian of Western Europe between the end of the Roman Empire and the tenth century. He has, however, on occasion, deviated backwards in time to the Neolithic in a study of the Basques and forward to the twenty-first century in a history of the papacy. His scholarly interests, not least in Spanish history, have resulted in the publication of eighteen books, plus another three he edited, and over seventy academic articles of greater or lesser readability. This year he will become the only author to have written three books on the subject of the Chronicle of the Pseudo-Fredegar, a fact unnoticed by the Guinness World Records.