Guy de la Bédoyère
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Guy de la Bédoyère is a British historian, who has published widely on Roman Britain and other subjects, and has appeared regularly on the Channel 4 archaeological television series, Time Team. He has also taken part in a number of other television programmes including a live archaeology programme from Egypt and a series on genealogy.
Despite the French name, his father's ancestry is mostly English, Anglo-Irish and Scottish, with a large part belonging to the ancient Lincolnshire family of Thorold baronets as well as the dukes of Manchester and the earls of Salisbury; there is a distant link to Charles de la Bédoyère, Napoleon's aide-de-camp at Waterloo in 1815. He is a cousin of Richard Gough, the former captain of Glasgow Rangers and Scotland.
Bédoyère was educated Durham University and at the Institute of Archaeology, now part of University College London. His special interests include coinage (ancient and modern), and he is a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society. He discovered the use of Virgil's poetry in the legends on coins of a rebel Romano-British emperor called Carausius (286-293).
He has published books on a diverse range of subjects. These include: a number of publications on Roman history for English Heritage; a book on the archaeology of aviation of the Second World War (for which he took a private pilot's licence at Biggin Hill); an edition of the correspondence between the diarists Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn; an edition of Pepys's other letters; The History of Computers, The First Polio Vaccine, and The Discovery of Penicillin in a series of educational science history books; and as of 2006 he is working on The Romans For Dummies in the popular For Dummies series.
[edit] Selected works
- Particular Friends. The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, Boydell (2nd edition 2005). ISBN 1843831341.
- The Diary of John Evelyn, Boydell, Woodbridge, 1995. ISBN 0851156398
- The Letters of Samuel Pepys, Boydell, Woodbridge, 2006. ISBN 184383197X.
- The Finds of Roman Britain, Batsford, London 1988. ISBN 0713460822.
- The Buildings of Roman Britain, Batsford, London 1991, now reprinted by Tempus, Stroud, 2001 as a revised second edition. ISBN 0752419064.
- A Companion to Roman Britain, Tempus, Stroud, 1999. ISBN 0752414577.
- Eagles over Britannia. The Roman Army in Britain, Tempus, Stroud, 2001. ISBN 0752419234.
- Roman Towns in Britain, Tempus, 2003. ISBN 0752429191.
- Architecture in Roman Britain, Shire Archaeology no. 66, 2002. ISBN 0747803536.
