Professor Simon Keynes

Photograph 20 x 13.3 (inches)

Window mount 28 x 22 (inches)

Simon Keynes is a Fellow of Trinity College and has written about various aspects of Anglo-Saxon history, including Alfred the Great and Æthelred the Unready. He was born in the Master's Lodge, Trinity College, during the mastership of his grandfather, E. D. Adrian (Nobel Laureate 1932). He is also a grandson of Geoffrey Keynes (brother of the economist John Maynard Keynes), and a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin.

The Department of ASNC is one of the smallest in the University, with eight teaching staff, about 25 graduate students and around 100 undergraduates. It is the only department in the United Kingdom which integrates the study of the languages, literatures, history and material culture of the peoples of Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia in the early Middle Ages.