Leeds Grammar School. In 2010 Bailey left Leeds to spend one term as a visiting fellow in medieval history at All Souls College, Oxford. He then took up the post of professor of later medieval history at the University of East Anglia that year. In 2011 he succeeded George Martin Stephen as high master of St Paul's School, London, a role he held until June 2020. His position was taken up by Sally-Anne Huang and he returned to the University of East Anglia as a professor. Bailey was invited to deliver the Ford Lectures in British History at the University of Oxford in 2019, which were published in 2021 by Oxford University Press (After the Black Death: Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England). He has written seven books and published a number of academic articles on the economy and society of medieval England. In 2014 he published The Decline of Serfdom in late medieval England: from bondage to freedom. Bibliography A Marginal Economy?: East Anglian Breckland in the later Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 1989). (Editor) The Bailiffs’ Minute Book of Dunwich 1404–1430 (Boydell Press, 1992). (Co-authored with John Hatcher) Modelling the Middle Ages: The History and Theory of England’s Economic Development (Oxford University Press, 2001). The English Manor c. 1200–1500 (Manchester University Press, 2002). Medieval Suffolk: An Economic and Social History 1200–1500 (Boydell Press, 2007). (Co-edited with Carole Rawcliffe, and Maureen Jurkowski) Poverty and Wealth: Sheep, Taxation and Charity in Medieval Norfolk (Norfolk Record Society, 2007). (Co-authored with S. H. Rigby) Town and Countryside in the Age of the Black Death: Essays in Honour of John Hatcher (Brepols, 2012). The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England (Boydell Press, 2014). After the Black Death: Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England (Oxford University Press, 2021) References 1960 births Living people People educated at Ipswich School Alumni of the College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge English rugby union players Rugby union wings Bedford Blues players Wasps RFC players Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players Durham University RFC players England international rugby union players Academics of the University of East Anglia English cricketers Suffolk cricketers High Masters of St Paul's School Suffolk cricket captains British historians Cricketers from Castleford Rugby union players from Castleford English cricketers of 1969 to 2000