Meet the Team

Here is the team that put the magazines together.


Carly Hilts
Editor

Carly Hilts

Carly studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at St John’s College, Cambridge, before becoming a journalist at Masons News Service, where she helped to cover eight counties in the east of England for the national papers. Quickly realising that she preferred covering history and archaeology stories above all others, she then joined Time Team as a researcher, later working for the Horrible Histories TV series; providing background information for educational history videos; helping with the development of an ancient Egyptian-themed computer game; and assisting with research for the recently-published The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered.


Kathryn Krakowka
Deputy Editor

Kathryn Krakowka

Kathryn received her DPhil in Archaeology from the University of Oxford in 2017, where she specialised in human osteology. For her doctoral thesis she focused on identifying the prevalence and patterns of violence-related trauma in medieval London and has continued to publish on the topic. She has also worked as a research associate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, working to record and analyse their extensive human remains collections, most of which originated from the medical and anatomical museum at Christ Church College, Oxford. Museum research and curation continue to remain a passion for her.


Hazel Blair
Assistant Editor

Hazel is Assistant Editor of Current Archaeology. Hazel has written across several of our titles, including Military History Monthly (now Military History Matters), Current World Archaeology, and The Past. When not investigating the latest historical news and interviewing archaeologists about their discoveries, she can be found curating CA’s digital output via our website, social media channels, and monthly e-newsletter.


Amy Brunskill
Editorial Assistant

Amy Brunskill

Amy studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University before deciding that archaeology was her preferred subject. She then went on to read for an MA Archaeology at Durham, focusing on art in Palaeolithic Europe. She is also interested in the presentation of archaeology and heritage to the public, having worked in a number of museums including the British Museum, Museum of London, and the Foundling Museum, and led a heritage project studying the economic impact of Durham Castle on the surrounding area for the UNESCO World Heritage Site management plan.


Andrew Selkirk
Editor-in-chief

Andrew Selkirk

Andrew Selkirk founded Current Archaeology in 1967 with his wife Wendy, and is now Editor-in-Chief. He has always been interested in archaeology: he did his first dig at school at the age of 13, subsequently went up to Oxford, where he read classics and became President of the Oxford University Archaeological Society. Believing that you cannot understand the past unless you first understand the present, he then became a Chartered Accountant, but while serving articles, he edited the student magazine Contra. This gave him a taste for editing magazine, so having qualified, he decided to abandon accountancy and launch a new archaeology magazine, called Current Archaeology. This was a success from the start, and has covered virtually all aspects of British archaeology.

Andrew Selkirk is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and was Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute, and has served on the councils of the Prehistoric Society, and the Roman Society. He has a particular interest in amateur archaeology, and is Chairman of the Council for Independent Archaeology which was established to promote archaeology carried out independently of government.

He is currently writing a book, Barbarism and Civilisation, the first drafts of which can be read on the website www.civilization.org.uk


† Neil Faulkner (1958-2022)
Contributing Editor

Neil Faulkner

We are deeply saddened by the death of our long-standing colleague and dear friend Neil Faulkner. Neil has been working with us since 2000 writing across all of our magazines and editing Military History Monthly since it’s first issue. He was a wonderful man, and will be sorely missed by all at Current Publishing.

He was the Editor of Military History Matters from issues 1 to 127.

For more about Neil, please visit: currentpublishing.com/neilfaulkner


Chris Catling
Contributing Editor

Chris Catling

Chris has been digging since he was 16, and is currently co-Director with Tim Darvill of an excavation near Cirencester looking at a linked Neolithic long barrow and causewayed enclosure. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the best-selling author of travel guides to Venice, Florence, Amsterdam, Madeira, London and Crete, and countless popular articles on British archaeology.



Joe Flatman
Contributing Editor

Joe Flatman

Joe completed a PhD in medieval archaeology at the University of Southampton in 2003, and since that time has held a variety of positions in universities, local and most recently central government. Since 2012 he has been Head of Listing Programmes at Historic England. He has published widely on matters of heritage policy, law and management, including the books Prehistoric Archaeology of the Continental Shelf (2014), Archaeology in Society: Its Relevance in the Modern World (2012) and Becoming an Archaeologist: A Guide to Professional Pathways (2011). You can follow him on Twitter @joeflatman.