John Schofield

John Schofield is now retired from the Museum of London, and is an archaeologist writing various books and reports. He was archaeologist for St Paul's Cathedral, London, from 1990 to 2021 and produced a large report 'St Paul's Cathedral before Wren', published by English Heritage in 2011. Also in 2011 he published 'London 1100-1600' for Equinox Press, in the series Archaeology of Medieval Europe, of which he is series editor. This book was awarded the London Archaeological Prize for the best archaeological publication in London in the years 2011-12, on 16 November 2012. He published a monograph on Wren's St Paul's Cathedral in 2016, then studies of the London waterfront (medieval, 2018; post-Fire, 2023).

John was an archaeologist at the Museum of London from 1974 to 1998, and as such was instrumental in initiating the policy of 'developer funding' which persuaded every developer in London to pay for the necessary archaeological work on each and every development site, which started in London in 1978. This became national policy in 1990.

Note there is another British archaeologist called John Schofield, at the University of York. He publishes widely on a different kind of archaeology.