Michael wood biography

He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late s to the present day. Wood was born in Moss Side , Manchester , England. When he was eight, his family moved to Paulden Avenue, Wythenshawe , where he could see historic Baguley Hall from his bedroom window. He went to Benchill Primary School.

He took A-levels in English, French and History. Wood studied History and English at Oriel College, Oxford , touring the United States for six weeks in his final year, and graduated with a second-class Bachelor of Arts degree. Later he undertook postgraduate research in Anglo-Saxon history at Oriel.

Michael wood documentaries

He was first a reporter and then an assistant producer on current affairs programmes before returning to his love of history with his —81 series In Search of the Dark Ages for BBC2. The series Legacy is one of his more frequently broadcast documentaries on US television. Since , Wood has been a director of independent television production company Maya Vision International.

In , he joined the British School of Archaeology in Iraq campaign, the aim of which was to train and encourage new Iraqi archaeologists, and he has lectured on the subject.

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Wood has stated that while empires were often built on the power of swords, India alone created an empire of spirit. Wood favours returning artefacts looted during the age of imperialism. Wood has termed the destruction in Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war more thorough than any ancient siege. In , Wood called the UK Home Office 's destruction of landing cards of the Windrush generation an "extraordinary act of vandalism.

In , Wood said that with torrent of fake news and imagined histories, it is critical for historians of all persuasions to create good narratives of the past.