Paul Stamper worked first in the 1980s for VCH Shropshire, then for 20 years with English Heritage/Historic England, and since 2016 as a freelance heritage consultant. He has been a member of the Medieval Settlement Research Group since the 1970s, and is a past President. Alongside the day job he has excavated on a number of medieval village sites, notably Wharram Percy, and taught landscape history at universities including Bristol and Leicester. He is also a Visiting Faculty at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Virginia, USA). With Neil Christie he co-edited the first edition of Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600 (2012).