David Davidson

David was born in Farnham, Surrey in 1950. He went to a preparatory school in Seaford and thence to the King’s School, Canterbury. He attended the Universities of London, Oxford and Mainz and wrote his doctoral thesis on the Roman Army. While undertaking research for his thesis, he visited Croatia for the first time.

He met Rajka in Mainz in 1984. They married in Zagreb in 1989 and they have a daughter, Emma, aged 13.

Rajka is also an archaeologist. After she completed her doctorate in Zagreb, they moved to Oxford in 1990. Following work in archaeological consultancy, they became the founding partners of Archaeopress (specialist archaeology publishers) in 1997.

David joined the B-CS in 1996 and became a member of the committee in that year. Following the death of Kathy Wilkes, he became Chairman in 2004.