Previous Members of the Steering Committee

Gareth Williams - Committee Chair until 2023

Gareth Williams is a historian with a keen interest in numismatics and archaeology, specializing in the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods. His research is focused on coinage, other systems of exchange, warfare, and military organization, as well as most areas of Viking history. Williams has also been involved in the history and archaeology of Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire, where he led an interdisciplinary research project from 2003-2011.

Williams has been a curator at the British Museum since 1996, and has curated various exhibitions, including 'Vikings: Life and Legend' at the British Museum in 2014, and guest curated the 'Viking Voyagers' exhibition at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth from 2015 to 2017. He is also part of the steering group for the development of the new Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo.

Williams was appointed as Senior Researcher on the 'Viking Phenomenon' research project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, and led by Professor Neil Price at the University of Uppsala. He is an Honorary Reader in Archaeology at UCL, and also lectures on an occasional basis for a number of universities, having supervised and examined PhDs in history and archaeology.

Richard Kelleher

Dr Richard Kelleher is Senior Curator of Medieval and Modern Money at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. His research interests include British and crusader numismatics and the reuse of monetary objects in social, religious or political contexts. He has edited the Money and Medals Newsletter since 2005.

Clare Pickersgill

Dr Clare Pickersgill is the Keeper of the University of Nottingham Museum which holds mainly regional archaeology collections from the palaeolithic to the post medieval period. The University of Nottingham Museum also supports Money and Medal Network training events.