After completing his doctorate, Richmond took up a teaching post at
Keele University, where he spent the remainder of his career.[3] He was appointed Professor of Medieval History in 1993.[4] He retired from full-time academia in 1997, and was appointed
professor emeritus.[5]
He has published a number of monographs, scholarly articles and book chapters on medieval history and the Holocaust, notable for their maverick style.[6] He has also published a range of spoof articles in legitimate academic journals, collected in The Penket Papers and Other Stories (1986) and Fabrications: The Adventures of Anthony Woodville, 2 vols. (self-published, 2016). In 2005, he was the recipient of a
festschrift edited by
Margaret Aston and
Rosemary Horrox, entitled Much Heaving and Shoving: Late-Medieval Gentry and their Concerns: Essays for Colin Richmond.
Notable Quotations
"The analytical spirit obstructs enjoyment" (The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: The First Phase, p. ix)
Selected works
John Hopton: A Fifteenth Century Suffolk Gentleman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
The Penket Papers and Other Stories (Gloucester: Sutton, 1986).
The
Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: The First Phase (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Fastolf's Will (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Endings (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001).
Colin Richmond (1992). "Englishness and Medieval Anglo-Jewry". In Kushner, Tony (ed.). The Jewish Heritage in British History. Frank Cass. pp. 42–59.
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